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 |
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| 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 |
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