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Sphyrna lewini

Bronze hammerhead shark

IUCN: critically endangeredmarinebrackish

(Griffith & Smith, 1834)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 105816 ↗

6

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1967

First collected

1987

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Sphyrna lewini, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  2. 2000

    Biodiversity of freshwater and estuarine communities in lower Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced species

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston, R. Wolff, S.L. Coles, L.G. Eldredge & K. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2000

  4. 1998

    Numbers of Hawaiian species: supplement 3, with notes on fossil species

    Eldredge, L.G. & S.E. Miller · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1960s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1967 by W.J. Baldwin et al (Oʻahu).