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Name Binomial Name Status Distribution Bonnethead: Sphyrna tiburo: LR/lc Northern South American coast, Gulf of Mexico, Southern California coast Great hammerhead: Sphyrna mokarran: EN Tropical and subtropical coasts Scalloped bonnethead: Sphyrna corona: NT California and Northwest South American coasts Scalloped hammerhead: Sphyrna lewini: EN
Most hammerhead shark species are too small to inflict serious damage to humans. [8] Man carrying a hammerhead shark along a street in Mogadishu, Somalia. The great and the scalloped hammerheads are listed on the World Conservation Union's 2008 Red List as endangered, whereas the smalleye hammerhead is listed as vulnerable.
This species of hammerhead shark is the most recently discovered out of the ten species. It was documented by Carter Gilbert in 1967 when a specimen was caught off Charleston, SC.
Sphyrna alleni is a small species of shark, measuring less than 150 centimetres (4.9 ft) in length. Like other hammerhead sharks , its head is shaped into a flattened cephalofoil. The latter has a more angular anterior edge than that of S. tiburo , and bears lobes on its posterior edges, leading to it being described as "shovel-like". [ 1 ]
The smalleye hammerhead (Sphyrna tudes), also called the golden hammerhead or curry shark, is a small species of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae. This species was historically common in the shallow coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, from Venezuela to Uruguay. It favors muddy habitats with poor visibility, reflected by its ...
The smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae.This species is named "smooth hammerhead" because of the distinctive shape of the head, which is flattened and laterally extended into a hammer shape (called the "cephalofoil"), without an indentation in the middle of the front margin (hence "smooth").
According to the International Shark Attack File, humans have been subject to just 17 documented attacks by hammerhead sharks in recent history, with no human fatalities attributed to the species. ...
The bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo), also called a bonnet shark or shovelhead, [3] is a small member of the hammerhead shark genus Sphyrna, and part of the family Sphyrnidae.It is an abundant species in the littoral zone of the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, is the only shark species known to display sexual dimorphism in the morphology of the head, and is the only shark species known to be ...