#2045 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Scalloped Hammerhead
🇳🇱 Geschulpte hamerhaai ·Sphyrna lewini
📍 Burleigh Heads, AU-QL, AU
📍 Honolulu County, US-HI, US
📍 San Cristóbal, EC-GA, EC
📍 Tecomán, MX-CL, MX
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Kris Mikael Krister · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Etienne Guitton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Proveedores INVEMAR · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Susanne Spindler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Simon Pierce · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Nicholas Hess · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Burleigh Heads, AU-QL, AU:© Nigel Marsh · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Honolulu County, US-HI, US:© Michaela Carrieres · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. San Cristóbal, EC-GA, EC:© zacpfeifer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Tecomán, MX-CL, MX:© Pelonchino · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The scalloped hammerhead ( Sphyrna lewini ) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae. Originally known as Zygaena lewini , its genus name was later changed to its current name. The Greek word sphyrna translates into "hammer" in English, referring to the shape of this shark's head. The most distinguishing characteristic of this shark, as in all hammerheads, is the 'hammer' on its head. The shark's eyes and nostrils are at the tips of...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,050 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Hamilton Smith in 1834 (192 years ago).
- Listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Scalloped Hammerhead
- Nederlands
- Geschulpte hamerhaai
- scientific name
- Sphyrna lewini
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Carcharhiniformes
- family
- Sphyrnidae
- IUCN Red List
- CR · critically endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,050
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1834 by Charles Hamilton Smith
IUCN in Dutch: ernstig bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Sphyrnidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 56764, Wikidata Q873701, GBIF 2418789, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.