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winghead shark

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A winghead shark

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winghead shark (plural winghead sharks)

  1. A species of hammerhead shark, Eusphyra blochii, in the family Sphyrnidae, named for the remarkably wide lobes on its head. It is the sole species in its genus.
    • 2016 July 8, Arthur Nelsen, The Guardian:
      The fast-declining winghead shark – a species of hammerhead – has also proved vulnerable to unregulated fishing, due to its distinctive shape which lends itself to entanglement in fishing nets.

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