A new #hammerhead #shark #species was #discovered, #Sphyrna #alleni, identified by authors below as distinct species in a #cryptic #complex with S. #tiburo.

Source
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.4.2

Photo
Not the new species, but the closest related Sphyrna tiburo (Aquarium of the Pacific),
author D. Ross Robertson, work of a Smithsonian Institution employee, https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic. | Zootaxa