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Family Sphyrnidae

Animals in the family Sphyrnidae on Global Animal Guide. The guide features 2 species in this family — each profile answers the most-searched questions first.

Hammerhead shark with its distinctive wide flat head swimming in blue water

Critically Endangered

Fish

Hammerhead Shark

The shark with a head like a hammer

Bonnethead shark with rounded hammer head cruising seagrass bed in clear shallows

Endangered

Fish

Bonnethead

Seagrass-munching hammerhead of warm shallows