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Genus Echinorhinus T. N. Gill, 1862. Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (bramble shark) Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1928 (prickly shark) Family Etmopteridae (lantern sharks) Genus Aculeola F. de Buen, 1959. Aculeola nigra F. de Buen, 1959 (hook-tooth dogfish) Genus Centroscyllium J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841.
Outline of sharks. A great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sharks: Sharks ( superorder Selachimorpha) are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 440 million years ago, before the ...
Mitsukurinidae. Mitsukurinidae is a family of sharks with one living genus, Mitsukurina, and four fossil genera: Anomotodon, Protoscapanorhynchus, Scapanorhynchus, and Woellsteinia, [1] though some taxonomists consider Scapanorhynchus to be a synonym of Mitsukurina. [2] [3] The only known living species is the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni .
Shark. † Synechodontiformes. Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the Batoidea ( rays and kin).
The frilled shark ( Chlamydoselachus anguineus ), also known as the lizard shark, is one of the two extant species of shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae (the other is the southern African frilled shark ( Chlamydoselachus africana )). The frilled shark is considered a living fossil, because of its primitive, anguilliform (eel-like) physical ...
Possibly extant (resident) The great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias ), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans. It is the only known surviving species of its genus Carcharodon.
The tiger shark ( Galeocerdo cuvier) [3] is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae. It is a large macropredator, with females capable of attaining a length of over 5 m (16 ft 5 in). [4]
The blacktip shark ( Carcharhinus limbatus) is a species of requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae. It is common to coastal tropical and subtropical waters around the world, including brackish habitats. Genetic analyses have revealed substantial variation within this species, with populations from the western Atlantic Ocean ...