Sphyrna mokarran

Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837). Great Hammerhead. To 6.1 m (20 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Kyushu, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Galván-Magaña et al. 2000) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998)...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
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Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5818660
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818660
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Summary:Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837). Great Hammerhead. To 6.1 m (20 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Kyushu, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Galván-Magaña et al. 2000) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Gulf of California population perhaps extirpated (Pérez-Jiménez 2014). Depth: surface to at least 300 m (984 ft) (min.: Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002; max.: Myers 1999). Sphyrna mokarran may be composed of two species; one from the Atlantic and one from the Indo-Pacific (Naylor et al. 2012). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 20, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008