Sphyrnidae

Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, Zootaxa 4429 (3), pp. 459-494 : 468-469

Family Sphyrnidae

* Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) —Tubarão-martelo, Cornuda; Smooth hammerhead

Bowdich 1825: 75 | Lowe 1838: 195 (as Squalus zygaena )

Lowe 1838: 195 | Lowe 1843–60: 83–86 | Günther 1870: 381 (as Zygaena malleus )

Noronha & Sarmento 1934: 107 and 146 | Nobre 1935: 425 (as Zygaena zygaena )

Fowler 1936: 64 | Noronha & Sarmento 1948: 103 | Nunes 1953: 101 | Albuquerque 1954 –56: 109 | Gilbert 1973: 32 | Sanches 1986: 76 | Wirtz et al. 2008: 3 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 12.

Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira, Azores ( Santos et al. 1997; Arruda 1997, Porteiro et al. 2010), Canary Islands ( Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003) and Cape Verde ( Reiner 1996, 2005; Wirtz et al. 2013).

Remarks. five formalin-preserved specimens in MMF collections, first dated from 1984 and the last one from 2013. Maul (1948) refers as frequent all year round. Common in the island of Madeira and rarer in Porto Santo. Juveniles have been seen nearshore at Funchal during summer (MF personal observation).