Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 19

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834) .

Scalloped Hammerhead. 4.3 m (14.1 ft) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2008). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); several southern California records as far north as Santa Barbara, southern California ( Seigel 1985) and south to Puerto Pizarro, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) , including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997); depth: surface to at least 1,043 m (3,421 ft) (min.: Weigmann 2016; max.: Moore and Gates 2005), Among other authors, Naylor et al. (2012) found evidence that Sphyrna lewini is likely a species complex.