Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-19
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Sphyrna lewini
(Griffith & Smith, 1834)
.
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.