 This was meant to stabilize the name, but had the opposite effect.In 1981, Jean Cadenat and Jacques Blache revisited the type specimens of "S. tudes" and found that the lectotype from Nice is likely not a smalleye hammerhead, but rather a fetal whitefin hammerhead ("S. couardi", likely a synonym of the scalloped hammerhead, "S. lewini").This would also explain the anomalous locality of the Nice specimen, as the smalleye hammerhead is not otherwise known outside of the Americas.