Smooth hammerhead
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The smooth hammerhead is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae. This species is named "smooth hammerhead" because of the distinctive shape of the head, which is flattened an
Sphyrna zygaena noaa
The scalloped hammerhead (left) and the smooth hammerhead (right) differ in cephalofoil shape.
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Sphyrna
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Sphyrna is a genus of hammerhead sharks with a cosmopolitan distribution in the world's oceans. Members of Sphyrna have a tendency to inhabit coastal waters along the intertidal zone rather than the o
Smooth hammerhead
…Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Division: Selachii Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Sphyrnidae Genus: Sphyrna Species: S. zygaena Binomial name Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) Range of the smooth hammerhead Synonyms Squalis pictus* Blainville, 1816 Squalus…
Hammerhead shark