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Scalloped hammerhead, the Glossary

The scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) is a species of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae.^[1]

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Fish described in 1834
Pantropical fish
Species endangered by use as food
Sphyrna
Taxa named by Charles Hamilton Smith
Taxa named by Edward Griffith (zoologist)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Batoidea

Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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The blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, which can be easily identified by the prominent black tips on its fins (especially on the first dorsal fin and its caudal fin).

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Carolina hammerhead

The Carolina hammerhead (Sphyrna gilberti) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae, found in the western Atlantic Ocean. Scalloped hammerhead and Carolina hammerhead are Sphyrna.

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Charles Hamilton Smith

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith, KH, KW, FRS, FLS, (26 December 1776 in East Flanders, in the United Provinces of the Netherlands – 21 September 1859 in Plymouth) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy.

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Cocos Island

Cocos Island (Isla del Coco) is an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately southwest of the Costa Rican mainland.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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DNA barcoding

DNA barcoding is a method of species identification using a short section of DNA from a specific gene or genes.

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Edward Griffith (zoologist)

Edward Griffith (1790–1858) was a British naturalist and solicitor.

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Endangered Species Act of 1973

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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FishBase

FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish).

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Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

Golfo Dulce is a gulf in Costa Rica, located at the south of the Province of Puntarenas.

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Great hammerhead

The great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) is the largest species of hammerhead shark, belonging to the family Sphyrnidae, attaining an average length of and reaching a maximum length of. Scalloped hammerhead and great hammerhead are Pantropical fish and Sphyrna.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Hammerhead shark

The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks that form the family Sphyrnidae, named for the unusual and distinctive form of their heads, which are flattened and laterally extended into a cephalofoil (a T-shape or "hammer"). Scalloped hammerhead and hammerhead shark are species endangered by use as food.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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List of sharks

Shark is the naming term of all members of Selachimorpha suborder in the subclass Elasmobranchii, in the class Chondrichthyes.

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Mackerel

Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Misión Tiburón

Misión Tiburón is a non profit organisation established in 2009, based on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nostril

A nostril (or naris,: nares) is either of the two orifices of the nose.

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Octopus

An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.

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Pacific Science

Pacific Science is a quarterly multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific basin, focusing especially on biogeography, ecology, evolution, geology and volcanology, oceanography, palaeontology, and systematics.

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Pelagic zone

The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).

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Sardine

Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Shark fin soup

Shark fin soup is a soup or stewed dish served in parts of China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

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Shark finning

Shark finning is the act of removing fins from sharks and discarding the rest of the shark back into the ocean.

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Shoaling and schooling

In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.

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Smooth hammerhead

The smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae. Scalloped hammerhead and smooth hammerhead are fish of the Dominican Republic and Sphyrna.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Squid

A squid (squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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36th parallel south

The 36th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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46th parallel north

The 46th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 46 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalloped_hammerhead

Also known as Bronze hammerhead, Kidney-headed hammerhead, Kidney-headed hammerhead shark, Scalloped Hammerhead Conservation, Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks, Scalloped Hammerheads, Southern Hammerhead, Southern Hammerhead Shark, Southern Hammerhead Sharks, Southern Hammerheads, Sphyrna couardi, Sphyrna lewini, Whitefin hammerhead, Zygaena lewini.

Scalloped hammerhead, the Glossary

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See also

Fish described in 1834

Pantropical fish

Species endangered by use as food

Sphyrna

Taxa named by Charles Hamilton Smith

Taxa named by Edward Griffith (zoologist)

References