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Carolina hammerhead: Sphyrna gilberti? western Atlantic Ocean Scoophead: Sphyrna media: DD California and northern South American coast Smalleye hammerhead: Sphyrna tudes: VU eastern South American coast Smooth hammerhead: Sphyrna zygaena: VU worldwide subtropical coasts, southern South America, Australia and New Zealand coast Whitefin ...
Most hammerhead shark species are too small to inflict serious damage to humans. [8] Man carrying a hammerhead shark along a street in Mogadishu, Somalia. The great and the scalloped hammerheads are listed on the World Conservation Union's 2008 Red List as endangered, whereas the smalleye hammerhead is listed as vulnerable.
The great hammerhead shark is an active predator with a varied diet, known prey of the great hammerhead include invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, squid, and octopus; bony fishes such as tarpon, sardines, sea catfishes, toadfish, porgies, grunts, jacks, croakers, groupers, flatfishes, boxfishes, and porcupine fishes; and smaller sharks such ...
This species of hammerhead shark is the most recently discovered out of the ten species. It was documented by Carter Gilbert in 1967 when a specimen was caught off Charleston, SC.
The scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) is a species of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae. It was originally known as Zygaena lewini . The Greek word sphyrna translates into "hammer" in English, referring to the shape of this shark's head, which is its most distinguishing characteristic.
Sphyrna alleni is a small species of shark, measuring less than 150 centimetres (4.9 ft) in length. Like other hammerhead sharks , its head is shaped into a flattened cephalofoil. The latter has a more angular anterior edge than that of S. tiburo , and bears lobes on its posterior edges, leading to it being described as "shovel-like". [ 1 ]
According to the International Shark Attack File, humans have been subject to just 17 documented attacks by hammerhead sharks in recent history, with no human fatalities attributed to the species. ...
The smalleye hammerhead (Sphyrna tudes), also called the golden hammerhead or curry shark, is a small species of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae. This species was historically common in the shallow coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, from Venezuela to Uruguay. It favors muddy habitats with poor visibility, reflected by its ...