Shairk
Appearance
Sharks | |
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Clockwise frae tap left: spiny dugfish, Japanese sawshark, whaul shairk, great white shairk, horn shairk, frilled shairk, scalloped haimerheid an Australian angelshairk representin the orders Squaliformes, Pristiophoriformes, Orectolobiformes, Lamniformes, Heterodontiformes, Hexanchiformes, Carcharhiniformes an Squatiniformes respectively. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Chondrichthyes |
Subcless: | Elasmobranchii |
Infracless: | Euselachii |
Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
Orders | |
Carcharhiniformes | |
Synonyms | |
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Shairks (superorder Selachimorpha) is a kynd o fish wi a skelet that's hailly cartilaginous an wi a gey an streamlined bouk. The earliest kent shairks dates frae mair nor 420 million year syne, afore the time o the dinosaurs.
- Sea dug (Galeorhinus galeus)
- Sail-fish, muldoan, or cairban (Cetorhinus maximus)
Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Selachimorpha. |
Alex
- ↑ "Selachii (shark)". The Paleontological Database (PBDB).