 Carter Gilbert concurred in his 1967 revision of the hammerhead sharks, noting that while the lost Coromandel specimen was probably a great hammerhead, none of the existing material belonged to that species.Thus, "Sphyrna tudes" became the accepted name for the smalleye hammerhead, taking precedence over "S. bigelowi" because it was published earlier, and the great hammerhead received the next available name "Sphyrna mokarran".Gilbert designated the Nice specimen as the lectotype that would define "S. tudes", having priority over the Cayenne specimen (the paralectotype).