Scalloped hammerhead

Scalloped hammerhead

Description

A scalloped hammerhead seen with a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) at over 1000 m depth. At the time of publication this is the deepest record of this species. The observation is described in the SERPENT Project publication: Alec B.M. Moore and Andrew R. Gates (2015). Deep-water observation of scalloped hammerhead Sphyrna lewini in the western Indian Ocean off Tanzania. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8, e91 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755267215000627

Item Type:Image
Title:Scalloped hammerhead
Creator(s):Gates, A.
Identification:Moore, A.
Date:27 September 2012
Time:00:30
Copyright:SERPENT
Classification:Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata (Chordates) > Class Chondrichthyes (Rays, Sharks & relatives) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground Sharks) > Sphyrnidae (Hammerheads/scoopheads/bonnetheads)
Species:Sphyrna lewini
Behaviour:Swimming at the seabed at >1000 m depth
Site:Indian > Indian Ocean > East Africa
Site Description:Seafloor
Depth (m):1043
Latitude:10 deg 00' 00" S
Longitude:40 deg 00' 00" E
Countries:East Africa > Tanzania
Substratum:Deep-sea mud
Rig:Deep Sea Metro I
Project Partners:BG Group, Oceaneering
ROV:Millennium 113
Keywords:Sphyrna lewini Scalloped hammerhead
Deposited By:Dr Andrew Gates
Deposited On:24 June 2015

Repository Staff Only: edit this item


Citation

In any downloading or consulting of the data from this website, the visitor acknowledges that he/she agrees to the following:
If data are extracted from this website for secondary analysis resulting in publication, the website should be cited as follows:

Jones, D.O.B., Gates, A.R., Curry, R.A., Thomson, M., Pile, A., Benfield, M. (Eds) (2009). SERPENT project. Media database archive. Available online at accessed on

If any data constitutes a substantial proportion of the records used in secondary analysis, the authors/managers of the database should be contacted. In any case, there are additional data which may prove valuable to such analyses.

SERPENT Image and Video Archive is running on GNU EPrints repository-creating software, which generates eprints repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0.

The GNU EPrints repository-creating software is available for free at http://software.eprints.org/.

More information is available about the repository.

EPrints.org