Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, I834)
Synonyms:
Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, 1834)
Zygaena lewini Grifflth and Smith, in Cuvier, Griffith and Smith, 1834, Animal kingdom, 10: 640, pl . 50 (south coast of New Holland). No type apparently extant.
? Cestrorhinus caroliniensis Blainville, 1816, Bull. soc. philomath. Paris: 121 (name only; no locality).
? Cestrorhinus pictus Blainville, 1816, ibid.: 121 (name only; no locality).
?Zygaena indica Van Hasselt, 1823, Algemeene Konst- en Letterbode voor het jaar 1823, 20: 315 (Java).
Sphyrna lewini: Duméril, 1858: 261 | Springer, 1941: 46-52 | Fraser-Brunner, 1950: 213-219 | Tortonese, l950a: 21-28 | Clark and von Schmidt, 1965: 62, fig. 6 | Gilbert, 1967: 37-45, fig. 10, 21d, 22d, pl. 3, 6B, l0B.
Cestracion leeuwenii Day, 1865, Fish. Malabar: 271 (emended spelling of lewini; Malabar).
Zygaena erythraea Ehrenberg, in Klunzinger, 1871, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 21: 666 (Red Sea).
Zygaena leuwinii Ramsay, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 5. W., 5: 96 (emended spelling of lewini).
Cestracion oceanica Garman, 1913, Mem. Mus. comp. Zool., 36: 158-159 (Soaety Islands). Syntypes: MCZ, no. 460 (3 spec.), USNM, no. 153587 (1 spec.).
Sphyrna diplana Springer, 1941, Proc. Fla. Acad. Sci., S (1940): 46-52 (Englewood, Florida). Holotype: USNM no. 108451.
Sphyrna diplana: Bigelow and Schroeder, 1948: 415-420, fig. 81 | Baughman and Springer, 1950: 123-125, pl. 13 | Fraser-Brunner, 1950: 213-219 | Tortonese, l950a: 21-28.
Sphyrna oceanica: Fraser-Brunner, l950b: 213-219 | Tortonese, l950a: 21-28.
Common names:
Scalloped hammerhead [UK and USA]
Requin-marteau halicorne [France and Belgium]
Cornuda común [Spain]