Cow sharks

Cow sharks

Taxobox
name = Cow sharks


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Hexanchiformes
familia = Hexanchidae
familia_authority = Gray, 1851
subdivision_ranks = Genera and species
subdivision = See text.

Cow sharks, or the Hexanchidae, are a family of sharks characterized by extra pairs of gill slits. There are probably only two seven-gilled genera, "Heptranchias" and "Notoryhncus" (Allen, 45).

Genera and species

* Genera "Heptranchias"
** Sharpnose seven-gill shark, "Heptranchias perlo" (Bonnaterre, 1788)
* Genera "Hexanchus"
** Bluntnose sixgill shark, "Hexanchus griseus" (Bonnaterre, 1788)
** Bigeye sixgill shark, "Hexanchus nakamurai" Teng, 1962
* Genera "Notorynchus"
** Broadnose sevengill shark, "Notorynchus cepedianus" (Péron, 1807)

References

*Allen, Thomas B. "The Shark Almanac". New York: The Lyons Press, 1999. ISBN 1-55821-582-4

External links

* [http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/shark_profiles/hexanchiformes.htm ReefQuest Centre: "Order Hexanchiformes: Cow Sharks"]


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