🦈Great hammerhead
Stor hammarhaj (Sphyrna mokarran) är den största arten av hammarhajar. Man hittar den i tropiska och tempererade vatten världen över, runt kuster och kontinentalplattor. Hajen blir vanligen upp till 3,5 meter lång och väger omkring 250 kg. Det längsta rapporterade exemplaret var 6 meter långt. En hammarhaj blir ungefär 20-30 år gammal. Förökningen är vivipar.
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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
All 8 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
- genusSphyrna
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