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Sphyrnidae (Hammerhead, bonnethead, or scoophead sharks)
Etymology: Sphyrna: Probable misspelling of sphyra (Gr.), hammer, referring to their hammer-shaped heads (See ETYFish); alleni: Named after Paul G. Allen (1953-2018) who was an investor, co-founder of Microsoft, and philanthropist who, through the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, has generously supported shark
research and conservation.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino; salobre asociado a arrecife. Tropical
Western Pacific: Belize to Brazil; including Panama, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago. S. tiburo from North Carolina, U.S to Belize have potential contact zone with S. alleni between Mexico and Belize (Yucatan Peninsula).
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.5 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 132488); 10.3 cm TL (female)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
This small hammerhead shark (<150 cm at maturity) is distinguished by the following characters: a flat, shovel shaped head without indentations on its anterior edge; cephalofoil anterior margin is pointed (like a triangle) in both sexes and the posterior margins are lobule shaped; anterior margin of males exhibits a pronounced bulge; with enlarged, molariform posterior teeth, the first
dorsal rear tip in front of pelvic origins, and shallowly concave posterior anal margin.; differs from S. tiburo with anterior margin of the head more rounded and the lobules on the posterior margin are not present; precaudal vertebral counts 80-83 (ca.10 more vertebrae than S. tiburo) (Ref. 132488).
Cross section: oval.
Occurs in coastal waters, estuaries, coral reefs, seagrass beds, and sand bottoms (Ref. 132488).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Gonzalez, C., B. Postaire, W. Driggers, S. Caballero and D, Chapman, 2024. Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic. Zootaxa 5512(4):491-511. (Ref. 132488)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Herramientas
Informes especiales
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5006 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00347 (0.00155 - 0.00774), b=3.12 (2.93 - 3.31), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.4 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Alto, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo inferior a 15 meses (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |