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Sphyrna lewini
Description
Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834).
Scalloped Hammerhead. 4.3 m (14.1 ft) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); several southern California records as far north as Santa Barbara, southern California (Seigel 1985) and south to Puerto Pizarro, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); depth: surface to at least 1,043 m (3,421 ft) (min.: Weigmann 2016; max.: Moore and Gates 2005), Among other authors, Naylor et al. (2012) found evidence that Sphyrna lewini is likely a species complex.
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sphyrnidae
- Genus
- Sphyrna
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Griffith & Smith
- Species
- lewini
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphyrna lewini (Griffith, 1834) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Seigel, J. A. (1985) The scalloped hammerhead, Sphyrna lewini, in coastal southern California waters: three records including the first reported juvenile. California Fish and Game, 71, 189 - 190.
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2012) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 754.1