Isistius

Taxobox
name = "Isistius"
fossil_range = Fossil range|56|0 Thanetian 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 ]


image_caption = Cookiecutter shark
"Isistius brasiliensis"
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Dalatiidae
genus = "Isistius"
genus_authority = Gill, 1865
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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

pecies

** Cigar shark or cookiecutter shark, "Isistius brasiliensis" (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
** South China cookiecutter shark, "Isistius labialis" (Meng, Zhu & Li, 1985)
** Largetooth cookiecutter shark, "Isistius plutodus" (Garrick & Springer, 1964))

References

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