media, Sphyrna Springer [S.] 1940:162, Fig. 3 [Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin v. 1 (no. 5); ref. 10182] Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico. Holotype: CAS-SU 11583. Paratypes: USNM 28160 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:9-10 [ref. 12291], Howe & Springer 1993:9 [ref. 21812]. •Valid as Sphyrna media Springer 1940 -- (Gilbert 1967:54 [ref. 21135], Compagno 1984:547 [ref. 6846], Cervigón 1992:186 [ref. 23827], Allen & Robertson 1994:25 [ref. 22193], Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:719 [ref. 22829], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:40 [ref. 24555], Compagno 1999:484 [ref. 25589], Soto 2001:65, 83 [ref. 26637], Compagno 2003:501 [ref. 26984], Gadig & Gomes in Menezes et al. 2003:24 [ref. 27192], Espinosa Pérez et al. 2004:71 [ref. 27705], Nelson et al. 2004:54 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:9 [ref. 37547], Lim et al. 2010:575 [ref. 39445], Castro 2011:514 [ref. 31457], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:99 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:45 [ref. 34211], Fourriére et al. 2016:453 [ref. 34668], Ehemann et al. 2018:22 [ref. 36194], Ehemann et al. 2019:[4] [ref. 36861], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:243 [ref. 37881], Bessudo et al. 2021:[3] 1771 [ref. 39107], González-Acosta et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38361], Love et al. 2021:19 [ref. 39279], Carvalho-Filho 2023:311 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:40 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Sphyrna media Springer 1940. Sphyrnidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern tip of Baja California (Mexico) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico, here regionally extinct); western Atlantic: Panama south to southeastern Brazil, including southern Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.