hammerhead shark

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hammerhead shark - medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous

hammerhead

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

genus Sphyrna, Sphyrna - type genus of the Sphyrnidae

smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena - fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver

smalleye hammerhead, Sphyrna tudes - fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver

bonnet shark, bonnethead, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo - small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries

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