Cetorhinidae
Temporal range: middle Eocene-present
Cetorhinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Cetorhinidae
Gill, 1861[1]
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Cetorhinidae is a family of filter feeding mackerel sharks, whose members are commonly known as basking sharks. It includes the extant basking shark, Cetorhinus, as well as two extinct genera, Caucasochasma and Keasius.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Gill, T.N. (1861). "Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America, from Greenland to Georgia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 13 (Suppl. 1): 1–63.
  2. ^ Whitley, G.P. (1934). "Notes on some Australian sharks". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10 (4): 180–200.
  3. ^ Welton, B.J. (2013). "A new archaic basking shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the late Eocene of western Oregon, U.S.A., and description of the dentition, gill rakers and vertebrae of the recent basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 58: 1–48.
  4. ^ Prokofiev, A.M.; Sychevskaya, E.K. (2018). "Basking shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the lower Oligocene of the Caucasus". Journal of Ichthyology. 58 (2): 127–138. doi:10.1134/S0032945218020121. S2CID 255271640.


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