Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By this change in the position of the parties, the zygaena had lost its advantage. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The characters in the drama were Snowball, the zygaena, and Ben Brace with his burden. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
When it pleased the Coromantee to dismount from his slippery saddle, the zygaena floated by his side, -- a carcass stained with its own blood, that for fathoms around encrimsoned the azure waters of the ocean! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
But no, the zygaena, notwithstanding its great voracity, like the rest of its tribe, is endowed with certain instincts of caution. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The zygaena, hitherto holding its course ahead of the _Catamaran_, had become apprised of the catastrophe occurring among the crew. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
He saw, moreover, it was the same he and little Lalee had so late been contemplating in security, -- the dreaded zygaena: for through the translucent water he could distinguish its hammer-shaped head, and lurid eyes gleaming out from their protuberant sockets, -- hideous to behold! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The cunning zygaena took no heed of either; but with its dark dorsal fin, set like a well-bent sail, it kept straight on towards the easier victims. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The plunge which Snowball had made as he sprang out into the water had caused the zygaena to swerve from its course; and for some moments it swam towards _him_, as if determined upon changing the object of its attack; but whether not liking the looks of the Coromantee or frayed by his bold attitude in making directly towards it, it shied back into its former course, and kept on towards the others. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
As the zygaena was gliding onward, and just as its rough _pectoral_ passed within an inch of his nose, he suddenly returned the knife between his teeth, and, simultaneously using both hands and limbs, he sprang upward in the waiter, and, with a vigorous effort, launched himself on its back! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
It was only after seeing the zygaena float lifeless on the water, and becoming satisfied that Snowball had come out of the struggle safe as well as victorious, that the boy gave utterance to a shout. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Should the zygaena once get past him and continue on towards the sailor, swift swimmer as Snowball was, he could have no chance of overtaking a fish. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Of course, the sailor, encumbered as he was by the half-lifeless form of the girl, would stand but little chance of making a successful defence against a shark, -- more especially such a monster as the zygaena; and it was the knowledge of this that had summoned Snowball to the rescue. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
But it was a game in which the outside player had all the advantage; for, although the zygaena had by far the greater distance to traverse, what was but sport to it was fatigue and the danger of drowning to its adversaries. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
It was this thought that was causing him anxiety, -- amounting almost to anguish, -- that caused him to plunge wildly through the water, -- to utter loud cries, and make other noisy demonstrations, -- with a view of distracting the attention of the zygaena from the victims it had fore-chosen, and drawing its attack upon himself. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
He knew that the zygaena, like others of its congeners, in seizing an object, requires to have that object _under_ it; otherwise, it is compelled to turn upon its back or side, just in proportion as the prey it would seize lies high or low in the water. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Fierce as is the zygaena and dreaded above all others of its tribe, -- half the dread no doubt is attributable to its hideous configuration. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
No wonder, therefore, that the victims which the zygaena had selected for its attack remained unconscious of its approach; and it was only on seeing Snowball spring out from the _Catamaran_, and swim towards him, that the sailor suspected the proximity of a shark. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The shriek that followed appeared to proceed from only the half of his body; for the other half, completely dissevered, had been already carried off between the terrible teeth of the _zygaena_. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Indeed, there was not much time for reflection: for as Snowball interposed his body between the zygaena and its intended victims, the woolly head of the Coromantee and the hammer-head of the shark were scarcely three lengths of a handspike from each other. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
