Species
- Genus Eusphyra
- Eusphyra blochii (Winghead shark)
- Genus Sphyrna
- Sphyrna corona (Scalloped bonnethead)
- Sphyrna lewini (Scalloped hammerhead)
- Sphyrna media (Scoophead)
- Sphyrna mokarran (Great hammerhead)
- Sphyrna tiburo (Bonnethead)
- Sphyrna tudes (Smalleye hammerhead)
- Sphyrna zygaena (Smooth hammerhead)
Announcements in June, 2006 reported the discovery of a possible new species of hammerhead off the shores of South Carolina. The possible new species is referred to simply as a cryptic species until it receives an official designation. This is prolonged, in part, because the discovery is really that the "scalloped hammerhead" is possibly two different species, not that a new species has been sighted, in the normal way. The discovery that scalloped hammerheads are possibly two species is a result of genetic testing and counts of vertebrae.
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