Educational resources on Bonnethead Shark

Bonnethead Shark or Sphyrna tiburo is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Bonnethead Shark

Academic web links for the Bonnethead Shark.

edis.ifas.ufl.edu
Family: Sphynidae. Sphyrna tiburo. bonnethead shark
edis.ifas.ufl.edu/sg062

bonnethead shark
Family: Sphynidae. Sphyrna tiburo. bonnethead shark
www.nicholls.edu/biol-ds/biol348/fishsets/bonnethead%20shark.htm

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Bonnethead
English language common names include bonnethead, bonnet hammerhead, bonnet shark, bonnethead shark, bonnetnose shark, and shovelhead. Other common names throughout the world
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/bonnethead/bonnethead.html

ADW: Sphyrna tiburo: Information
There are few data on how the bonnethead shark moves as well as few data about the mating behavior. This species must remain in motion at all times in order to survive.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sphyrna_tiburo.html

hammerhead photos
Juvenile bonnethead shark ... all photos available for educational use with photo credit given as
www.science.fau.edu/sharklab/pages/hammer_photos.html

ScienceNow: Who's Your Daddy
But for the bonnethead shark, scientists have found the reverse. The revelation could have important implications for the management of shark fisheries, they report in the July
www.nova.edu/ocean/whosyourdaddy.html

New Page 1 [www.sms.si.edu]
Description: The bonnethead shark is a smaller relative of the hammerhead sharks, and grows to approximately 5 feet in length. The head is expanded as in other
www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Sphyrn_tiburo.htm

Sphyrn_tiburo
The Bonnethead Shark, Sphyrna tiburo. Note inset showing an overhead view of this animal's head shape. Illustration by Diana Rome Peebles 1998.
www.sms.si.edu/IRLSpec/Sphyrn_tiburo.htm

Georgia Fishes
Bonnethead shark. Bowfin. Brook trout. Brown trout. Carp. Chain pickeral. Channel catfish. Cherokee darter. Chestnut lamprey
www.cviog.uga.edu/gsb/student/wildlife/fish.htm

Sharks can reproduce asexually
...led by two scientists from Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach, used DNA testing to document the unusual phenomenon in a bonnethead shark born in an
www.nova.edu/ocean/ghri/herald_virginshark.html