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Identification of the 8 extant shark orders. Shark is the naming term of all members of Selachimorpha suborder in the subclass Elasmobranchii, in the class Chondrichthyes.The Elasmobranchii also include rays and skates; the Chondrichthyes also include Chimaeras.
(non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols ...
Names of higher categories of animals are always written in sentence case (e.g., kangaroo rat, river martin). Individual articles should be consistent in using either title or sentence case for common names. If an article on an animal species uses title-case title, all species mentioned in the text should have their name in title case.
An interpolated name is italicized and placed in non-italic parentheses (round brackets); some examples are after a genus name to indicate a subgenus, after a genus group to denote an aggregate of species, after a species name to mean an aggregate of subspecies, after a genus and the word "section" or "sect." to provide a botanical genus ...
The mouse catshark (Galeus murinus) is a species of shark belonging to the family Pentanchidae, the deepwater catsharks. It is common in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean from Iceland to Western Sahara .
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List of fatal shark attacks in the United States; Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 – series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey between July 1 and July 12, 1916 [4] Summer of the Shark – the name given to the summer of 2001 by American media outlets capitalizing on a bull shark attack and subsequent shark attacks [5]
Common name Scientific name Geographic range Conservation status IUCN Red List Length Image Blacknose shark: Carcharhinus acronotus (Poey, 1860) Endangered 1.3 m (4.3 ft) Silvertip shark: Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell, 1837) Vulnerable 2–2.5 m (6.6–8.2 ft) maximum 3 m (9.8 ft) Bignose shark: Carcharhinus altimus (S. Springer, 1950)