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Scalloped hammerhead - Sphyrna lewini

Family SPHYRNIDAE - Hammerhead sharks

Resouces from government sites on Sphyrna lewini :

Description Scalloped Hammerhead- Sphyrna lewini
A biological profile on the Scalloped Hammerhead, Sphyrna lewini. Learn it's worldwide
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Education/sharkkey/scallopedhammerhead.html

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini). Biological Profile Scalloped hammerhead
http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Sphyrn_lewini.htm

Sphyrn_lewini
Species Name: Sphyrna lewini. Common Name: (Scalloped Hammerhead). I. TAXONOMY.
http://www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Sharks_rays.htm

Introduction
Nurse Shark (Gingliostoma cirratum). Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus). Scalloped
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Sphyrna_lewini.html

ADW: Sphyrna lewini: Classification
Sphyrna lewini (scalloped hammerhead). Classification. What do these icons mean?
http://www.science.fau.edu/sharklab/pages/publications.html

publications
2003. Exposure to solar radiation may increase ocular UV-filtering in the juvenile
http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/sharklab/research/kanesa/kanesa1.html

Population genetics Image Gallery
Adapted from Compagno’s 1984 FAO guide to sharks of the world, this map shows the
http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/sharklab/research/kajiura.html

Electroreception Research
...responses have been elicited from several shark species, but most of the research
http://www.miami.edu/sharklab/aboutbimini_sharks.html

Bimini Biological Field Station - shark research & marine biology ...
Scalloped Hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini); Spinner Shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna);
http://oceanica.cofc.edu/sharktagging/ProjectOverview.htm

Shark Tagging Questions and Answers
...shark (Prionace glauca), oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), tiger
http://psrc.mlml.calstate.edu/enps.htm

PSRC - Eastern North Pacific Sharks
FAMILY SPHYRNIDAE — HAMMERHEAD SHARKS Sphyrna corona (Springer, 1940) — Scalloped
http://links.baruch.sc.edu/Data/SpeciesLists/Fishes.html

Baruch Institute Data Archives | Sharks, Skates, Rays, & Other ...
Mustelus canis, smooth dogfish, U, U, R, J, Ad. Sphyrnidae - hammerheads, Sphyrna
http://www.nova.edu/ocean/ghri/sharkreproduction.html

Shark Reproduction and Mating System Evolutio
...in this area includes studying the genetic basis of mating behavior in the bonnethead
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/zooarch/hierarchy.asp?tl=Genus_sp&tx=Sphyrna%20lewini

www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/zooarch/hierarchy.asp?tl=Genus_sp&tx=Sphyrna%20lewini
Similar pages Head Turner
http://biomechanics.bio.uci.edu/_html/nh_biomech/hammer/hammer.htm

ASIH 1997 Joint Meetings - Scientific Sessions
...predatory experience; 3:30 Bush, A. Diet, gastric evacuation, and daily ration
http://collections.ucsd.edu/mv/fish_collection/osteo.html

Class Myxini
Negaprion brevirostris Poey [s]. Prionace glauca (Linnaeus) [s]. Sphyrna lewini
http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/jd/jdweb/fishing/fishll/fishll.htm

JD's Fish Life List
Sharks and Rays Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias) Gray Smoothhound (Mustelus
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/gal02/galll.html



Academic web resources on Sphyrna lewini :

NPSpecies Report
Sphyrna lewini, mata`italiga, scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini. mata`italiga.
http://www.nps.gov/npsa/NPSAfish/fish_pops/sphyrin/hammerhead01.htm

National Park of American Samoa
Fishes of Nationa Park of American Samoa. Hammerhead sharks. Sphyrna lewini.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11944972&dopt=Abstract

Purification, characterization, and biological activity of ...
Purification, characterization, and biological activity of insulins from the spotted
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8592393&dopt=Abstract

Fusarium solani fungal infection of the lateral line canal system ...
Two of five scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) captured May 1987
http://na.nefsc.noaa.gov/sharks/repro/sexdet.html

Example of female (top) and male (bottom) scalloped hammerhead ...
Example of female (top) and male (bottom) scalloped hammerhead sharks, Sphyrna lewini.
http://na.nefsc.noaa.gov/sharks/lw/schh.html

Figure 15
Relationship between fork length and total body weight (sexes combined) for the
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/recreational/survey/species_group_list.html

MRFSS - Survey Species Groups
...hammerhead shark genus. Sphyrna tiburo, bonnethead. Sphyrna zygaena, smooth hammerhead.
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/cocos/movie-species.html

Species Featured in Movie - Isla del Coco Fishes
Tursiops truncatus, bottlenosed dolphin, tonina. Caranx sexfasciatus, bigeye trevally,
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/cocos/list.html

List of Fish Species - Isla del Coco Fishes
...& Henle, 1839) Rhizoprionodon longurio (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) Triaenodon obesus
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/RefRpt?search_type=publication&search_id=pub_id&search_id_value=2161

ITIS 'Publication' Search results for Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. ...
Pacific sleeper shark. Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, 1834) -- valid --
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/RefRpt?search_type=publication&search_id=pub_id&search_id_value=1949

ITIS 'Publication' Search results for Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. ...
Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1766) -- valid -- red drum. Sphyrna lewini (Griffith
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol03_Ch0121-0200D/HRS0187A/HRS_0187A-0001.htm

PART I
...limbatus), smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena), reef whitetip shark (Triaenodon
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/tm/tm110/tm110index.htm



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