WoRMS taxon details

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834)

105816  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105816)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Zygaena lewini Griffith & Smith, 1834) Griffith, E.; Smith, C. H. (1834). The class Pisces, arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions, by Edward Griffith, F.R.S., &c. and Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith, F.R., L.S.S., &c. &c. <em>In: Cuvier, G: The animal kingdom, arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c., with supplementary additions to each order, by Edward Griffith ... and others. (2nd ed.) Whittaker & Co., London.</em> 1-680, Pls. 1-62 + 3. [English treatment of Cuvier's "Régne Animal"; supplements by Griffith and Smith; authorship variously cited.]. [details] 
Description A coastal-pelagic, semi-oceanic shark occurring over the continental and insular shelves. Young form schools and forage...  
Description A coastal-pelagic, semi-oceanic shark occurring over the continental and insular shelves. Young form schools and forage near the bottom, migrating to deeper outer reef waters as they grow. Adults solitary or in pairs. Feeds on fishes, including other sharks and rays (Ref. 1602), cephalopods, and crustaceans; also on turtles (Ref. 2334). Non-aggressive unless stimulated by fish blood. Utilized: fresh, dried-salted, smoked and frozen; also sought for fins and hides (Ref. 9987). Game fish record weighed almost 450 kg (Ref. 9987). [details]

Distribution New Jersey to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico  
Distribution New Jersey to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105816 on 2024-12-11
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description (of Zygaena lewini Griffith & Smith, 1834) Griffith, E.; Smith, C. H. (1834). The class Pisces, arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions, by Edward Griffith, F.R.S., &c. and Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith, F.R., L.S.S., &c. &c. <em>In: Cuvier, G: The animal kingdom, arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c., with supplementary additions to each order, by Edward Griffith ... and others. (2nd ed.) Whittaker & Co., London.</em> 1-680, Pls. 1-62 + 3. [English treatment of Cuvier's "Régne Animal"; supplements by Griffith and Smith; authorship variously cited.]. [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Moore, A. B.; Gates, A. R. (2015). Deep-water observation of scalloped hammerhead Sphyrna lewini in the western Indian Ocean off Tanzania. <em>Marine Biodiversity Records.</em> 8., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755267215000627 [details] 

context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details] 

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details] 

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details] 

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Castro. (1983). [details] 

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

additional source Barker, A. M.; Adams, D. H.; Driggers, W. B.; Frazier, B. S.; Portnoy, D. S. (2019). Hybridization between sympatric hammerhead sharks in the western North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Biology Letters.</em> 15(4): 20190004., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0004 [details] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Description A coastal-pelagic, semi-oceanic shark occurring over the continental and insular shelves. Young form schools and forage near the bottom, migrating to deeper outer reef waters as they grow. Adults solitary or in pairs. Feeds on fishes, including other sharks and rays (Ref. 1602), cephalopods, and crustaceans; also on turtles (Ref. 2334). Non-aggressive unless stimulated by fish blood. Utilized: fresh, dried-salted, smoked and frozen; also sought for fins and hides (Ref. 9987). Game fish record weighed almost 450 kg (Ref. 9987). [details]

Distribution New Jersey to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]
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LanguageName 
English scalloped hammerhead  [details]
German gekerbter HammerhaiBogenstirn-Hammerhai  [details]
Japanese アカシュモクザメ  [details]
Lithuanian bronzinis kūjaryklis  [details]
Polish głowomłot tropikalny  [details]
Russian бронзовая акула-молот  [details]
Spanish tiburón martillocornuda común  [details]
Turkish çekiç balığı  [details]
Ukrainian Бронзова риба-молотАкула-молот бронзова  [details]