hammerhead shark
Noun
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Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head;
Worldwide in warm waters;
Can be dangerous (synset 101497116)is a type of: shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scalessubtypes:- smooth hammerhead, sphyrna zygaena - fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver
- smalleye hammerhead, sphyrna tudes - fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver
- bonnet shark, bonnethead, shovelhead, sphyrna tiburo - small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries
belongs to: genus sphyrna, sphyrna - type genus of the Sphyrnidaesame as: hammerhead
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