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Sphyrna mokarran
Description
Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837).
Great Hammerhead. To 6.1 m (20 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Kyushu, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Galván-Magaña et al. 2000) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Gulf of California population perhaps extirpated (Pérez-Jiménez 2014). Depth: surface to at least 300 m (984 ft) (min.: Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002; max.: Myers 1999). Sphyrna mokarran may be composed of two species; one from the Atlantic and one from the Indo-Pacific (Naylor et al. 2012).
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 20, 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
- Ruppell
- Species
- mokarran
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphyrna mokarran (Ruppell, 1837) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Galvan-Magana, F., Gutierrez-Sanchez, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A. & Rodriquez-Romero, J. (2000) The distribution and affinities of the shorefishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In: Munawar, M., Lawrence, S. G., Munawar, I. F. & Malle, D. F. (Eds.), Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Ecovision World Monograph Series. Backhuys Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 383 - 398.
- 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.
- Perez-Jimenez, J. C. (2014) Historical records reveal potential extirpation of four hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna spp.) in Mexican Pacific waters. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 24, 671 - 683. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 11160 - 014 - 9353 - y
- Myers, R. F. (1999) Micronesian Reef Fishes. Coral Graphics, Barrigada.
- 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