Sphyrna tiburo

Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758). Bonnethead or Bonnethead Shark. To about 1.5 m (46 in) TL (Compagno in Carpenter 2003); possibly to 1.8 m (6 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Formerly San Diego, southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998); western A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna
Sphyrna tiburo
Yukon
Milton
Jiménez
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5818662
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818662
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Summary:Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758). Bonnethead or Bonnethead Shark. To about 1.5 m (46 in) TL (Compagno in Carpenter 2003); possibly to 1.8 m (6 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Formerly San Diego, southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998); western Atlantic (Compagno 1984). Last documented specimen north of Colombia was captured in Mexico in 2006 (Pérez-Jiménez 2014). Rare from Colombia to Peru (Pollom et al. 2020g). Depth: intertidal to 90 m (295 ft) (Weigmann 2016). Spyrna tiburo is probably a species complex (Fields et al. 2016). 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

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