Mexico is home to a broad biodiversity of shark species, and more than half of the sharks in Mexican waters are distributed in the Mexican Pacific, with over 62 species recorded. This …
This work aimed to characterize the nursery habitat use patterns of the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini (SPL), in coastal areas of Jalisco and Colima, through …
Evidence-based environmental management is urgently required to enable progress towards global conservation commitments. To fill large-scale biodiversity knowledge gaps …
Sharks have been of great cultural and socioeconomic importance in Mexico since the late 19th century, when the first fisheries were prosecuted in the Gulf of California to export fins to …
This study is the first description of the residency and diel movements of Sphyrna lewini at the Revillagigedo National Park, Mexico. Eleven adult scalloped hammerheads of total …
Sphyrna lewini is a placental viviparous shark that uses coastal nursery areas in Jalisco, Mexico, where pups stay 4–12 months. Changes in size or swimming speed may be …
Despite the intensive use of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in the proximity of the Gulf of California, there is no information regarding their levels in predatory shark species, which …
Juveniles of large hammerhead shark species occupy coastal nurseries before migrating offshore to reproduce. In the central Gulf of California, artisanal elasmobranch fisheries have …
The scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) is a globally threatened shark species that has experienced significant declines throughout its range due to overfishing, along with high …