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Sphyrna media (Scoophead; Scoophead shark)

Synonyms: Sphyrna nana
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Wikipedia Abstract

The scoophead (Sphyrna media) is a little-known species of hammerhead shark, part of the family Sphyrnidae. It inhabits the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, from Panama to southern Brazil, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Ecuador, and probably northern Peru as well. It is found in shallow inshore habitats.
View Wikipedia Record: Sphyrna media

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Sphyrna media

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Holorchis legendrei[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0