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 text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 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 ).