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SUBCLASS ELASMOBRANCHII
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sharks; rays; dogfishes; skates
Synonyms:
Elasmobranchii; Selachii; subclass Elasmobranchii; subclass Selachii
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("subclass Elasmobranchii" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "subclass Elasmobranchii"):
Batoidei; order Batoidei; order Rajiformes; Rajiformes (fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes)
order Torpediniformes; Torpediniformes (rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes)
family Squatinidae; Squatinidae (bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks)
family Sphyrnidae; Sphyrnidae (hammerhead sharks; bonnethead sharks)
family Squalidae; Squalidae (dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin)
family Triakidae; Triakidae (small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins)
Carcharhinidae; family Carcharhinidae (largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks)
family Scyliorhinidae; Scyliorhinidae (small bottom-dwelling sharks)
family Rhincodontidae; Rhincodontidae (small-toothed sharks comprising only one species)
Carchariidae; family Carchariidae; family Odontaspididae; Odontaspididae (sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae)
family Orectolobidae; Orectolobidae (nurse sharks and carpet sharks)
Alopiidae; family Alopiidae (thresher sharks)
Cetorhinidae; family Cetorhinidae (in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks)
family Lamnidae; Lamnidae (oceanic sharks)
family Hexanchidae; Hexanchidae (primitive sharks)
elasmobranch; selachian (any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates)
Holonyms ("subclass Elasmobranchii" is a member of...):
Chondrichthyes; class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
