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Sphyrna zygaena
Description
Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758).
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 2004b), 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).
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
- Linnaeus
- Species
- zygaena
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) 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
- Dyldin, Yu. V., Orlov, A. M., Velikanov, A. Ya., Makeev, S. S., Romanov, V. I. & Hanel, L. (2018) An annotated list of the marine and brackish-water ichthyofaunal of Aniva Bay (Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin Island): 1. Petromyzontidae-Agonidae families. Journal of Ichthyology, 58, 473 - 501. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945218040033
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Brito, J. L. (2004 b) Presencia del tuburon martillo Sphyrna zygaena (Carchariniformes: Sphyrnidae) y nuevo registro del tiburon espinudo Echinorhinus cookeri (Squalformes: Squalidae) en San Antonio, Chile central. Investigaciones Marinas, Valparaiso, 32, 141 - 144.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1984) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 4. Sharks of the World. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2. FAO, Rome.
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.