Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Classis: Chondrichthyes
Subclassis: Elasmobranchii
Infraclassis: Euselachii
Division/Cohort: Neoselachii
Subdivision/Subcohort: Selachimorpha
Superordo: Galeomorphii
Ordo: Lamniformes
Familia: Cetorhinidae
Genera: Cetorhinus – †Keasius – †Pseudocetorhinus
Name
Cetorhinidae Gill, 1862
Type genus: Cetorhinus Blainville, 1816
References
Gill, T.N. 1862. Analytical synopsis of the order of Squali; and revision of the nomenclature of the genera. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7(32): 367*–370*, 371-408. [Pp. 367–370 duplicated in preceding article. Read 16 Dec. 1861, probably published early 1862. Genera date to this article, also treated on pp.409–413. Both articles combined as separate, pp. 1–47p] From Catalog of Fishes. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1862.tb00166.xPaywall Reference page.
Cetorhinidae is a family of filter feeding mackerel sharks, whose members are commonly known as basking sharks. It includes the extant basking shark, Cetorhinus, as well as two extinct genera, Caucasochasma and Keasius.[3][4]
References
Gill, T.N. (1861). "Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America, from Greenland to Georgia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 13 (Suppl. 1): 1–63.
Whitley, G.P. (1934). "Notes on some Australian sharks". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10 (4): 180–200.
Welton, B.J. (2013). "A new archaic basking shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the late Eocene of western Oregon, U.S.A., and description of the dentition, gill rakers and vertebrae of the recent basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 58: 1–48.
Prokofiev, A.M.; Sychevskaya, E.K. (2018). "Basking shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the lower Oligocene of the Caucasus". Journal of Ichthyology. 58 (2): 127–138. Bibcode:2018JIch...58..127P. doi:10.1134/S0032945218020121. S2CID 255271640.
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