Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus 1758)
- 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 zygaena
description
Smooth Hammerhead. To 4 m (13.1 ft) (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Hokkaido, Island, Japan (Dyldin et al. 2018); central California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Bahía de San Antonio, Chile (33 ° 35 ’ S (Brito 2004 b), including Islas Galápagos (Compagno 1984). Depth: surface to at least 200 m (656 ft) (min.: Compagno 1984; max.: Ebert 2003), and possibly to 420 m (1,640 ft) or more (Weigman 2016).
Name
- Homonyms
- Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus 1758)