Common Thresher Bibliography
Alexander, R,L. 1998. Blood Supply to the Eyes and Brain of Lamniform Sharks. J. Zool. (Lond.), 245(3): 363-369.
Bass, A.J., J.D. D’Aubrey, and N. Kistnasamy. 1975. Sharks of the East Coast of Southern Africa. IV. The Families Odontaspididae, Scapanorhynchidae, Isuridae, Cetorhinidae, Alopiidae, Orectolobidaeand Rhiniodontidae. Oceanographic Research Institute, Investigational Report No. 39. Durban. 102 pp.
Bigelow, Henry B., and William C. Schroeder. 1953. Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildl. Serv., 53: 32-34.
Bone, Q., and A.D. Chubb. 1983. The Retial System of the Locomotor Muscles in the Thresher Shark. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K., 63: 239-241.
Budker, Paul. 1971. The Life of Sharks. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 222 pp.
Cadenat, J., and J. Blanche. 1981. Requins de Méditerranée et d’ Atlantique (Plus Particuliérement de la Côte Occidentale d’ Afrique). Faune Tropicale XXI. ORSTROM, Paris. pp 143-144.
Cailliet, Gregor M., Linda K. Martin, James T. harvey, David Kusher, and Bruce A. Welden. 1982. Preliminary Studies on the Age and Growth of Blue, Prionace glauca, Common Thresher, Alopias vulpinus, and Shortfin Mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, Sharks from California Waters. pp 197-188 In E.D. Prince and L.M. Pulos (eds.) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Age Determination of Oceanic Pelagic Fishes: Tunas, Billfishes, and Sharks. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 8.
Eitner, Blaise J. 1995. Systematics of the Genus Alopias (Lamniformes: Alopiidae) with Evidence for the Existence of an Unrecognized Species. Copeia, 1995(3): 562-571.
Gubanov, Ye. P. 1972. On the Biology of the Thresher Shark [Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre)] in the Northwest Indian Ocean. J. Ichthyol., 12(4): 591-600.
Gubanov, Ye. P. 1976. The First Catch of a Tagged Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus). J. Ichthyol., 16(3): 497-498.
Gubanov, Ye. P. 1978. The Reproduction of Some Species of Pelagic Sharks from the Equatorial Zone of the Indian Ocean. J. Ichthyol., 18(5): 781-792.
Hixon, Mark A. 1979. Term Fetuses from a Large Common Thresher, Alopias vulpinus. Calif. Fish and Game, 65 (3): 191-192.
Joseph, David C. 1954. A Record-Size Thresher from Southern California. Calif. Fish and Game, 40(4): 433-435.
Lineaweaver, Thomas H., III, and Richard H. Backus. 1970. The Natural History of Sharks. J.B. Lipincott Co., Philadelphia. 256 pp.
Moreno, J.A., J.I. Parajua, and J. Moron. 1989. Breeding Biology and Phenology of Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Squaliformes: Alopiidae) in the North-Eastern Atlantic and Western Mediterranean. Sci. Mar. (Barc.), 53(1): 37-46.
Morrow, James E. 1955. A Thresher Shark from Long Island Sound. Postilla, No. 24: 3 pp.
Templeman, Wilfred. 1963. Distribution of Sharks in the Canadian Atlantic (With Special Reference to Newfoundland Waters). Bull. Fish. Res. Bd. Can., 140: 2-3.
