Sphyrnidae

Moore, Alec B. M., Ward, Robert D. & Peirce, Richard, 2012, Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), Zootaxa 3167, pp. 1-16 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.279779

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5696814

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA87F1-FFFB-FF99-B1B1-7A19C4B2EC7A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Sphyrnidae
status

 

Sphyrnidae View in CoL View at ENA (Hammerhead sharks)

The winghead shark Eusphyra blochii ( Cuvier, 1816) has been reported from the Gulf but without evidence ( Randall 1986; Carpenter et al. 1997a), although its occurrence in the Gulf of Oman near Jask is proven ( Blegvad 1944, as Zygaena blochii ). Reports of the smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena ( Linnaeus, 1758) in the Gulf were doubted by Randall (1996), and our data support this, although a number of specimens of this species have recently been confirmed from Oman ( Henderson & Reeve 2011).

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF