Sphyrna media Springer 1940
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Carcharhiniformes
- family
- Sphyrnidae
- genus
- Sphyrna
- species
- Sphyrna media
description
Scoophead or Scoophead Shark. To 150 cm (59.1 in) TL (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Gulf of California and tip of Baja California to Ecuador and probably northern Peru; western Atlantic (Ebert et al. 2013). Gulf of California population appears to be extirpated (Pérez-Jiménez 2014). Depth: surface to 100 m (328 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Sphyrna media Springer 1940