Great hammerhead
Sphyrna mokarran
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 17 diving areas across 14 countries and 8 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 507 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 26 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 8 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 38 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 13 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 2 records
- Florida Keys, United States - 4193 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 1 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 3 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records