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Winghead shark - Eusphyra blochii

Family SPHYRNIDAE - Hammerhead sharks

Resouces from government sites on Eusphyra blochii :

Head Turner
The winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii), which lives in the western Pacific and Indian
http://biology.unm.edu/biology/coccidia/chond.html

Coccidia of the World
Piked dogfish); Reference: Fitzgerald 1975. Eimeria zygaenae Chakravarty and
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/organizations/aes/abst1998b.htm

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Spiral intestines of Prionace glauca, Galeocerdo cuvier, Eusphyra blochii, 4 Sphyrna
http://www.science.fau.edu/sharklab/pages/evolution_res.html

research
...morphologies tell of its evolutionary success. Sphyrna tiburo. Sphyrna lewini.
http://www.science.fau.edu/sharklab/pages/hammer_photos.html

hammerhead photos
Normal & mutant bonnethead sharks, Winghead shark, Eusphyra blochii. Juvenile
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Sphyrnidae.html

ADW: Sphyrnidae: Classification
...sharks). Genus Eusphyra. Species Eusphyra blochii (winghead shark). pictures.
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/bio/tax/Chondrichthyes.txt

Subclass Order Family Genus species Common name Full Finished # of ...
...sharpnose shark Scoliodon laticaudus Spadenose shark Triaenodon obesus Whitetip
http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0311&L=shark-l&F=&S=&P=8639

SHARK-L archives -- November 2003 (#80)
SCAFFOLD SHARK (E) NT Cirrhihaleus barbifer MANDARIN SHARK (E) NT Echinorhinus cookei
http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0211&L=shark-l&F=&S=&P=23601

SHARK-L archives -- November 2002 (#227)
...<DIV></DIV>&gt;The shark possessing the largest hammer, the winghead, (Eusphyra
http://www.iccs.edu/html/body_an_khalid.htm

DR. KHALID M. KHAN
A study on fatty acid composition of Fish liver oil from two marine Fish, Eusphyra
http://uio.mbl.edu/browser/index.php?func=name_detail&ubioID=879023

TNS Browser
Pating =>Etmopterus brachyurus Smith & Radcliffe, 1912, Pisces (Fish), Pating
http://uio.mbl.edu/SOAPbrowser/index.php?func=name_detail&ubioID=879959



Academic web resources on Eusphyra blochii :

ITIS 'Publication' Search results for Compagno, Leonard JV
Eusphyra Gill, 1862 -- valid. Eusphyra blochii (Cuvier, 1816) -- valid --
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=160527



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