| Taxonomic Hierarchy 
        
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kingdom | Animalia 
 – Animal, animaux, animals |  |  |  | Subkingdom | Bilateria 
 – triploblasts |  |  |  | Infrakingdom | Deuterostomia |  |  |  | Phylum | Chordata 
 – cordés, cordado, chordates |  |  |  | Subphylum | Vertebrata 
 – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates |  |  |  | Infraphylum | Gnathostomata |  |  |  | Superclass | Chondrichthyes |  |  |  | Class | Chondrichthyes 
 – cartilaginous fishes, rays, sharks, condrictes, peixe cartilaginoso, tubarão, poissons cartilagineux, raies, requins |  |  |  | Subclass | Elasmobranchii 
 – cartilaginous fishes, rays, sharks, skates, torpedoes |  |  |  | Superorder | Euselachii |  |  |  | Order | Carcharhiniformes 
 – ground sharks |  |  |  | Family | Triakidae Gray, 1851
 – cazones, émissoles, houndsharks, smooth-hounds, topes, whiskery sharks, hound sharks, smooth dogfishes |  |  |  | Genus | Mustelus Linck, 1790
 – smooth hound sharks, smooth hounds |  |  |  | Species | Mustelus lenticulatus Phillipps, 1932 – spotted estuary smooth-hound |  |  
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