Habitat
The species of hammerhead
shark Sphyrna lewini live all over the world.
S. lewini lives in many ranges of water. They are
known to swim into estuaries, and have also been seen in
waters of up to 1,000 meters (NOAA Fisheries 2013). This
gives researchers reason to believe that this species of
hammerhead shark is very versatile. In a study that was
done in the Gulf of California a group of scalloped
hammerhead sharks were recorded with an average depth of
358.8 meters and water temperatures ranging from 27.8
degrees Celsius to 4.8 degrees Celsius (Jorgensen et al.
2009).
S. lewini has been found all over the world in coastal waters. This species along with other species of hammerhead sharks are found living near almost every continent. The largest concentrations of S. Lewini are found in the Gulf of California, near the tip of South Africa, Australia, and the Philippian Island’s. This is a very wide range of territory for one species to exist in. The dispersal of this species across the world is male based. Females tend to stay on one general location while males travel to new locations. . Adult S. lewini can occasionally be found in the open ocean, and documented oceanic movements exceed 1500 km (Daly-Engel et al. 2012)
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