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Sphyrna corona Springer 1940

Description

* Sphyrna corona Springer, 1940.

Scalloped Bonnethead. To 92 cm (36.2 in) TL (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995) to northern Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including the southern tip of Baja California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995), now rare north of Colombia (Pérez-Jiménez 2014). Depth: inshore (Allen and Robertson 1994) to perhaps 100 m (320 ft) (Weigmann 2016).

Notes

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 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
  • Perez-Jimenez, J. C. (2014) Historical records reveal potential extirpation of four hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna spp.) in Mexican Pacific waters. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 24, 671 - 683. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 11160 - 014 - 9353 - y
  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874