🦈Great hammerhead
De grote hamerhaai (Sphyrna mokarran) is een vis uit de familie van hamerhaaien (Sphyrnidae), orde roofhaaien (Carcharhiniformes), die voorkomt in de Grote, Atlantische en Indische Oceaan. Het meest frequent is hij echter in tropische en subtropische delen van de Atlantische oceaan te vinden. Het is de grootste soort van de hamerhaaien.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- 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
Everything we know about the Great hammerhead
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass450 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length3.7 mrecord 6.1 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan30 yearsmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level4.32FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.32 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansotherFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l450 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderCarcharhiniformes
- ›familySphyrnidae
- ›genusSphyrna
- ›speciesSphyrna mokarran
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
- genusSphyrna
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
- genusSphyrna
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