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Hammerhead sharks

LC control no.sh 85058574
LC classificationQL638.95.S7
Topical headingHammerhead sharks
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Variant(s)Bonnethead sharks
Cestraciontoidae
Hammerheaded sharks
Hammerheads (Fish)
Scoophead sharks
Sphyrna
Sphyrnidae
Zyganinae
See alsoCarcharhiniformes
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Found inWelsbacher, A. Hammerhead sharks, 1996: p. 6 (nine species of hammerhead; some called bonnetheads: scalloped bonnethead, Sphyrna corona, and S. tiburo, sometimes called shovelhead; scoophead, S. media; smalleye, S. tudes; West African white fin, S. couardi; great hammerhead, S. mokarran; scalloped or bronze hammerhead, S. lewini; common or smooth hammerhead, S. zygaena; winghead, Eusphyra blochii)
FAO species cat. sharks world: p. 538 (Sphyrnidae Gill; sy: Zyganinae Swainson, Zygaenidae Owen, Cestraciontoidae Gill ... equals Heterodontidae Gray); FAO names: En - Bonnethead sharks, Hammerhead sharks, Scoophead sharks; 2 genera: Sphyrna and Eusphyra)
Random House (hammerhead ... 2. shark of genus Sphyrna)
Web. 3 (hammerhead ... 3a. any of various medium-sized sharks that with the shovelheads constitute the family Sphyrnidae; hammerhead shark, also hammerheaded shark)
Fishes north-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean: p. 122 (Sphyrnidae, common name: Hammerhead sharks) p. 123 (Sphyrna Rafinesque, common names of species ... hammerhead)
Common and sci. names of fishes U.S. and Canada: p. 13 (Sphyrinidae--hammerhead sharks; Sphyrna only genus mentioned; 3 hammerhead species, one bonnethead)
Eschmeyer cat. gen. recent fishes (Sphyrna Rafinesque, Sphyrnidae)