🦋 Family

Sphyrnidae

4 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Elasmobranchii › Carcharhiniformes › Sphyrnidae

Sphyrna lewini, the scalloped hammerhead, is a large warm-temperate and tropical shark with a distinctively shaped head.

Sphyrna zygaena, the smooth hammerhead, is the second-largest hammerhead shark, found in temperate waters worldwide.

Sphyrna mokarran, the great hammerhead, is a large migratory tropical hammerhead shark found worldwide.

Sphyrna tiburo, the bonnethead shark, is the smallest-headed hammerhead shark found in warm American coastal waters.

Related Families

Carcharhinidae 24 species Scyliorhinidae 11 species Triakidae 10 species

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