Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
(plate)
Features: Front edge of "Hammer" slightly rounded and scalloped; inside
tip of pectoral fin dark; rear edge of ventral fin straight
Description: Gray with pale underside
Notes: Compare with Great Hammerhead;
the scalloped has shorter dorsal fin; also a smooth Hammerhead: Sphyma zygaena,
that inhabits Florida in winter
Audubon Field Guide; page 277; plate 48-49;
Reef Fish ID, 3rd edition; page 450-451; plate
451;
Size: 5-9 feet; max 14 feet;
Depth: 20-160 feet;
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