Scalloped hammerhead
Sphyrna lewini
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: CR - Critically Endangered - facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Family
- Sphyrnidae
- Genus
- Sphyrna
Where to Find
Found in 40 diving areas across 29 countries and 11 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 57 records
- Victoria, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 2 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 2 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 5 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 1 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 94 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 5 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 22 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 49 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 6 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 7 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 23 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 2 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 2 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 2 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 20 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 4 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 8 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 3 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 1 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 3 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 4 records
- Koh Tao, Thailand - 1 records