Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837)

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 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).