Sphyrnidae

Sphyrnidae (Hammerhead sharks) The winghead shark Eusphyra blochii (Cuvier, 1816) has been reported from the Gulf but without evidence (Randall 1986; Carpenter et al. 1997 a), although its occurrence in the Gulf of Oman near Jask is proven (Blegvad 1944, as Zygaena blochii). Reports of the smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Gulf were doubted by Randall (1996), and our data support this, although a number of specimens of this species have recently been confirmed from Oman (Henderson & Reeve 2011).