Sphyrna tiburo

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Noun1.Sphyrna tiburo - small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped headSphyrna tiburo - small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries
hammerhead shark, hammerhead - medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous
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Latitudinal variation in life-history traits of bonnethead sharks, Sphyrna tiburo, (Carcharhiniformes: Sphyrnidae) from the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Across all of our sites, we recorded five species of elasmobranchs, including lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris), nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum), bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo), southern stingrays (Dasyatis americana), and spotted eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari).
Differential co-localization with choline acetyltransferase in nervus terminalis suggests functional differences for GnRH isoforms in bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo).
(0.26[per thousand]), Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766) (0.08[per thousand]), and Sphyrna tiburo (0.40[per thousand]) displayed a very narrow range of [delta][sup.15]N.
3.7 Dasyatis longus 2.6 Sphyrna corona 2.6 Mustelus henlei 2.0 Carcharhinus limbatus 1.9 Nasolamia velox 0.9 Carcharhinus porosus 0.5 Carcharhinus leucas 0.5 Sphyrna tiburo 0.4 Ginglymostoma cirratum 0.4 Dasyatis spp.
Placentation in the silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis and bonnetshark Sphyrna tiburo. Anatomy Records 151 (3): 452.
The other fishes that we tested are senorita wrasses (Oxyjulis californica), bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo), mummichogs, or killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus), and pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides).
The mother bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo) lives at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., far from any males of her kind.
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