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
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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