A Classification of the Recent Elasmobranchii

Cestracion no. 2 KLEIN 1742
Squalus tiburo LINNAEUS 1758 t/l: "Habitat in America"
Le Pantoufflier BROUSSONET 1780
Round-headed Zygaena SHAW & NODDER 1795
Squale carolinien BOSC 1803 (Carolina)
Heart-headed shark SHAW 1804
Sphyrna vespertina SPRINGER 1940 t/l; Pacific coast of Panama
Range;Western Atlantic from North Carolina to Southern Brazil, occasionally north as far north as
Maine.
Eastern Pacific from S.California to Northern Peru.
Subgenus MESOZYGAENA Compagno 1988
Mesozygaena COMPAGNO 1988, type Sphyrna corona SPRINGER 1940
S. TUDES (Valenciennes) 1822 Smalleye Hammerhead
Zygaena tudes CUVIER 1817 (ref. only)
Zygaena tudes VALENCIENNES 1822 t/l; " Nice, Med.;Cayenne;Coromandel"
Sphyrna chiereghini NARDO 1847 t/l; Venice, Italy
Sphyrna bigelowi SPRINGER 1944 t/l; Uruguay and Rio de Janeiro
Range; Tropical West Atlantic Venezuela to Uruguay. Not in Gulf of Mexico.
Western Med. is dubious. See Compagno FAO Species Cat., 1984 p. 553 for discussion.
S. CORONA Springer 1940 Scalloped Bonnethead
Sphyrna tudes JORDAN & EVERMANN 1896 (part) (non VALENCIENNES )
Sphyrna corona SPRINGER 1940 t/l; Panama (Pacific Coast)
Range; Eastern Pacific from Chiapas, Mexico to Ecuador.
S. MEDIA Springer 1940 Scoophead Shark
Sphyrna tudes JORDAN 1895 (non VALENCIENNES )
Sphyrna media SPRINGER 1940 t/l;Mazatlan, Mexico.
Sphyrna nana SADOWSKY 1964 t/l; Brazil.
Range; Eastern Pacific from Gulf of California to Ecuador. Western Atlantic from Nicaragua to S.
Brazil.
Sphyrna sp. Johnson 1978 cf. media Squarehead
Shark
Potentially unidentified species in French Polynesia close to media but much larger.
Genus EUSPHYRA Gill 1862
Eusphyra GILL 1862, type Zygaena blochii CUVIER 1817
E. BLOCHII (Cuvier) 1817 Winghead Shark; Slender
Hammerhead
Squalus zygaena BLOCH 1785 (non LINN.) ? India.
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