Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum : Chordata
Sub phylum: Vertebrata
Class: Condrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Super order: Selachimorpha
Orders:
*Carcharhiniformes
*Heterodontiformes
*Hexanchiformes
*Lamniformes
*Orectolobiformes
*Pristiophoriformes
*Squaliformes
*Squatiniformes
There are about 400 species of shark. Examples are:
Carcharias taurus
Sphyrna zygaena
Isistius brasiliensis
Rhincodon typus
Eridacnis radcliffei
Carcharhinus obscurus
Carcharodon carcharias
Prionace glauca
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Superorder: Selachimorpha
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The scientific name for a leopard shark is Triakis semifasciata.
Sharks are cartilaginous fish of the Superorder Selachimorpha.
Galeocerdo cuvier
Prionace glauca
Carcharodon carcharias
The scientific name for the phylum of cartilaginous fishes is Chondricthyes. More specifically, sharks are categorized under subclass Elasmobranchii which is then divided into the subdivisions Selachii (sharks) and Batoidea (skates and rays).
Rhincodon typus - whale shark
The scientific name of the domestic shark is Selachimorpha. Sharks have been around for about 420 million years and have a cartilaginous skeleton.
There are many orders and species of sharks. They all belong to the: Chondrichthyes Class, Subclass: ElasmobranchiiSuperorder: Selachimorph.Then each species belongs to one or other of over ten orders within this superorder. The Carcharhiniformes is one of them. The Great White Shark Carcharodon carcharias belongs to this order. For more information see 'Related Links' below.
The blue shark's common name is "blue shark". It's scientific name using standard Latin-based binomial nomenclature is Prionace glauca.
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