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Sphyrna media Springer 1940
Description
* Sphyrna media Springer, 1940.
Scoophead or Scoophead Shark. To 150 cm (59.1 in) TL (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Gulf of California and tip of Baja California to Ecuador and probably northern Peru; western Atlantic (Ebert et al. 2013). Gulf of California population appears to be extirpated (Pérez-Jiménez 2014). Depth: surface to 100 m (328 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sphyrnidae
- Genus
- Sphyrna
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Springer
- Species
- media
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphyrna media Springer, 1940 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
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.
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- 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
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.