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Carcharhiniformes  
Taxonomic Serial No.: 551500

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Order  
  Synonym(s): Carchariniformes
 
    Scyliorhinoidei
 
  Common Name(s): ground sharks [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete    
  Latest Record Review: 2003    
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumChordata  -- chordates, cordado, cordés  
       SubphylumVertebrata  -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés  
          ClassChondrichthyes  -- cartilaginous fishes, condrictes, peixe cartilaginoso, poissons cartilagineux, raies, rays, requins, sharks, tubarão  
             SubclassElasmobranchii  -- cartilaginous fishes, rays, sharks, skates, torpedoes  
                SuperorderEuselachii   
                   OrderCarcharhiniformes  -- ground sharks  
    Direct Children:  
                      Family Carcharhinidae Jordan and Evermann, 1896 -- mangeurs d'hommes, requiem sharks, tiburones gambuso 
                      Family Hemigaleidae Hasse, 1879 -- weasel sharks 
                      Family Leptochariidae Gray, 1851 -- barbeled hound sharks, barbeled houndsharks 
                      Family Proscylliidae Fowler, 1941 -- finback catsharks 
                      Family Pseudotriakidae Gill, 1893 -- false cat sharks, musolones, requins à longue dorsale 
                      Family Scyliorhinidae Gill, 1862 -- cat sharks, catsharks, pejegatos, roussettes 
                      Family Sphyrnidae Gill, 1872 -- bonnethead sharks, hammerhead sharks, requins-marteaux, scoophead sharks, tiburones martillo 
                      Family Triakidae Gray, 1851 -- cazones, émissoles, hound sharks, houndsharks, smooth dogfishes, smooth-hounds, topes, whiskery sharks 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Compagno, Leonard J. V. / Hamlett, William C., ed.  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes   
  Page(s): 471-498   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-6048-2   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Carcharhiniformes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.  
  Publication Date: 1994   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
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  Reference for: Carcharhiniformes   
       

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