thresher shark

thresher shark

[′thresh·ər ‚shärk]
(vertebrate zoology)
Common name for fishes in the family Alopiidae; pelagic predacious sharks of generally wide distribution that have an extremely long, whiplike tail with which they thrash the water, destroying schools of small fishes.
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