Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834)

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 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818656

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF83-FFA7-98EA-F9C4F804372C

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Plazi

scientific name

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834)
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Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834) View in CoL .

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.

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