Whitefin hammerhead

Taxobox
name = Whitefin hammerhead


status =
trend =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Carcharhinidae
genus = "Sphyrna"
species = "S. couardi"
binomial = "Sphyrna couardi"
binomial_authority = Cadenat, 1951

The whitefin hammerhead, "Sphyrna couardi", is a shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in tropical waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean oceans between latitudes 34° N and 6° S. Its length is up to about 3 m.

The whitefin hammerhead is a coastal-pelagic shark, feeding on fishes, especially bony fishes, and also benthic and epibenthic cephalopods.

It is viviparous, with 24 to 28 young in a litter. Size at birth is about 30 to 32 cm.

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