Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 20

Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Bonnethead or Bonnethead Shark. To about 1.5 m (46 in) TL (Compagno in Carpenter 2003); possibly to 1.8 m (6 ft) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Formerly San Diego, southern California ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Paita, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998); western Atlantic ( Compagno 1984). Last documented specimen north of Colombia was captured in Mexico in 2006 ( Pérez-Jiménez 2014). Rare from Colombia to Peru ( Pollom et al. 2020g). Depth: intertidal to 90 m (295 ft) ( Weigmann 2016). Spyrna tiburo is probably a species complex ( Fields et al. 2016).