'Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi'
Abstract
Two specimens of the pelagic thresher shark
Alopias pelagicus (Nakamura, 1936) were landed at
Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour on 28.06.2011. One
specimen was male (Fig. 1) and the other was female.
The male pelagic thresher shark measured 940 mm
and weighed 900 g. The female measured 829 mm
(caudal fin tip was absent) and weighed 750 g. The
specimens were characterised by large eye size and
very long upper lobe of caudal fin. According to
Compagno (1984) and Fisher and Bianchi (1984), the
pelagic thresher is ovoviviparous, with at least two
young, born at a length greater than 96 cm
