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Squalus zygaena = Winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii)
Subject: Squalus zygaena = Winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii)
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Zygaena blochii - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ14100051 - Winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii).jpg
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Squalus zygaena = Winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii)


Sphyrna zygaena syn. Squalus zygaena
Date between 1700 and 1880
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Zygaena blochii
New Latin name Eusphyra blochii
Common name Nederlands: Vleugelkophamerhaai
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zygaena_blochii_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ14100051.tif

The winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae. In 1785, German naturalist Marcus Elieser Bloch described a shark that he referred to Squalus zygaena (a synonym of Sphyrna zygaena, the smooth hammerhead).

Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Sphyrnidae
Genus: Eusphyra T. N. Gill, 1862
Species: Eusphyra blochii (G. Cuvier, 1816)
Synonyms
    Zygaena blochii G. Cuvier, 1816
    Zygaena laticeps Cantor, 1837
    Zygaena latycephala van Hasselt, 1823

Smooth hammerhead shark
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