Somniosus

Taxobox
name = "Somniosus"
fossil_range = Miocene to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-09 ]

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image_caption = Greenland shark
"Somniosus microcephalus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Dalatiidae
genus = "Somniosus"
genus_authority = Lesueur, 1818
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Somniosus" is a genus of squaliform sleeper sharks in the family Dalatiidae.

pecies

* Greenland shark, "Somniosus microcephalus" (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
* Pacific sleeper shark, "Somniosus pacificus" (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944)
* Little sleeper shark, "Somniosus rostratus" (Risso, 1827)

References

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