Lamniformes
Translingual
Etymology
Proper noun
Lamniformes
- A taxonomic order within the superorder Selachimorpha – mackerel sharks, of all oceans worldwide, possibly excluding the Arctic and the Southern Oceans.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Chondrichthyes – class; Elasmobranchii – subclass
Hyponyms
- (order): Alopiidae (thresher sharks), Cetorhinidae (basking shark), Lamnidae (great mackerel sharks), Megachasmidae (megamouth shark), Mitsukurinidae (goblin shark), Odontaspididae (sand tiger), Pseudocarchariidae (crocodile shark) – families
- †Anacoracidae – extinct family
References
- Lamniformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lamniformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Lamniformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Lamniformes at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI