great hammerhead

species of shark (Sphyrna mokarran)
Taxon taxon Q757353
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Summary

great hammerhead is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.6% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,597 views/month, #1,176 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Critically Endangered[4]
  • Parent taxon: Sphyrna[5]
  • Taxon name: Sphyrna mokarran[6]
  • Commons category: Sphyrna mokarran[7]
  • External data available at URL: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/abf8082d-c179-4cb2-acc4-3cdef16c4341[8]
  • Short name: S. mokarran[9]
  • Taxon common name: Great hammerhead[10], Cornuda[11], El Tiburon[12], Guardia Civil[13], Pez Martillo[14], Tiburon[15], Grand Requin-marteau[16], Marieau Millet[17], Poisson Pantouflier[18], Sorosena[19], Hammerhead Shark[20], Squat-headed Hammerhead Shark[21], 無溝雙髻鯊[22], 無溝丫髻鯊[23]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[24]
  • CITES Appendix: Appendix II of CITES[25]
  • Taxon range: Brazil[26], New Guinea[27], The Bahamas[28]

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Identifiers

great hammerhead's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 56766[29]. great hammerhead's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 195334[30]. great hammerhead's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559948[31]. great hammerhead's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2418792[32]. great hammerhead's ITIS TSN is recorded as 160515[33].

Why It Matters

great hammerhead has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [30] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [33] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [32] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . IUCN Red List. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [25] ↑ . Species+. wikidata.org.
  29. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [27] ↑ . gbif.org. Retrieved . gbif.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [28] ↑ . Philopatry and Regional Connectivity of the Great Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna mokarran in the U.S. and Bahamas. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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