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Sphyrna mokarran at georgia🦈

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SpeciesCarcharhiniformesSphyrnidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Great hammerhead

Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837)

El tiburón martillo gigante (Sphyrna mokarran) es una especie de elasmobranquio carcarriniforme de la familia Sphyrnidae. Posee una longitud media de 4,6 m y una longitud máxima de 6,1 m. Se encuentra en aguas tropicales y templadas cálidas de todo el mundo. Habita zonas costeras y la plataforma continental. El tiburón martillo gigante se puede distinguir de otros tiburones martillo por la forma de su cabeza en forma de martillo (de ahí su nombre), que es ancha con un margen frontal casi recto, y por su primera aleta dorsal alta y en forma de hoz. Es un superdepredador, solitario y nadador, que se alimenta de una amplia variedad de presas que van desde crustáceos y cefalópodos hasta peces óseos y tiburones más pequeños.

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Measurements
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Also called
Hammerhead Shark, Squat-headed Hammerhead Shark
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
450 kg
Body length
3.7 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great hammerhead

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
450 kgmaximum recorded
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
3.7 mrecord 6.1 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
30 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Trophic level
4.32
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.32 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
other
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
450 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great hammerhead yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familySphyrnidae
  6. ›genusSphyrna
  7. ›speciesSphyrna mokarran
Full lineage
  1. superclassGnathostomata
  2. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  3. subclassElasmobranchii
  4. genusSphyrna
All 8 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
  8. genusSphyrna
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In other languages
Sphyrna mokarran (es), 无沟双髻鲨 (zh), Grand requin-marteau (fr), Sphyrna mokarran (pt), Гигантская акула-молот (ru), peix martell gegantina (ca) … and 20 more languages

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