hammerhead shark

Synonyms:

hammerhead

Types:

Sphyrna zygaena, smooth hammerhead

fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver

Sphyrna tudes, smalleye hammerhead

fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver

Sphyrna tiburo, bonnet shark, bonnethead, shovelhead

small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries

Type of:

shark

any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales