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List of cartilaginous fish

List of cartilaginous fish is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of cartilaginous fish rather than just read about it. In short: The following is the full list of the extant species in Class Chondrichthyes, or the cartilaginous fish. Members of this class have a backbone, gills, no swim bladder, jaws, and a skeleton made of cartilage, a soft, strong material as a replacement for bone.

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Reference excerpt

The following is the full list of the extant species in Class Chondrichthyes, or the cartilaginous fish. Members of this class have a backbone, gills, no swim bladder, jaws, and a skeleton made of cartilage, a soft, strong material as a replacement for bone.

Subclass Holocephali

Order Chimaeriformes Family Callorhinchidae Garman 1901 Genus Callorhinchus Lacépède 1798 (Plownose chimaera) Callorhinchus callorynchus Linnaeus 1758 (ploughnose chimaera) Callorhinchus capensis Duméril 1865 (Cape elephantfish) Callorhinchus milii Bory de Saint-Vincent 1823 (Australian ghost shark) Family Chimaeridae Bonaparte, 1831 (Shortnose chimaeras or ratfishes) Genus Chimaera Linnaeus 1758 Chimaera argiloba Last, White & Pogonoski 2008 (whitefin chimaera) Chimaera bahamaensis Kemper, Ebert, Didier & Compagno 2010 (Bahamas ghost shark) Chimaera cubana Howell-Rivero 1936 (Cuban chimaera) Chimaera fulva Didier, Last & White 2008 (southern chimaera) Chimaera jordani Tanaka 1905 (Jordan's chimaera) Chimaera lignaria Didier 2002 (carpenter's chimaera) Chimaera macrospina Didier, Last & White 2008 (longspine chimaera) Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus 1758 (rabbit fish) Chimaera notafricana Kemper, Ebert, Compagno & Didier 2010 (Cape chimaera) Chimaera obscura Didier, Last & White 2008 (shortspine chimaera) Chimaera opalescens Luchetti, Iglésias & Sellos 2011 (Opal chimaera) Chimaera orientatis Angulo, López, Bussing & Murase 2014 (Eastern Pacific black chimaera) Chimaera owstoni Tanaka 1905 (Owston's chimaera) Chimaera panthera Didier 1998 (leopard chimaera) Chimaera phantasma Jordan & Snyder 1900 (silver chimaera) Genus Hydrolagus Gill 1863 Hydrolagus affinis de Brito Capello 1868 (smalleyed rabbitfish) Hydrolagus africanus Gilchrist 1922 (African chimaera) Hydrolagus alberti Bigelow & Schroeder 1951 (Gulf chimaera) Hydrolagus alphus Quaranta, Didier, Long & Ebert 2006 Hydrolagus barbouri Garman 1908 (Ninespot chimaera) Hydrolagus bemisi Didier 2002 (pale ghost shark) Hydrolagus colliei Lay & Bennett 1839 (spotted ratfish) Hydrolagus deani Smith & Radcliffe 1912 (Philippine chimaera) Hydrolagus eidolon Jordan & Hubbs 1925 Hydrolagus homonycteris Didier 2008 (black ghostshark) Hydrolagus lemures Whitley, 1939 (blackfin ghostshark) Hydrolagus lusitanicus Moura, Figueiredo, Bordalo-Machado, Almeida & Gordo 2005 Hydrolagus macrophthalmus de Buen 1959 (Bigeye chimaera) Hydrolagus marmoratus Didier, 2008 (marbled ghostshark) Hydrolagus matallanasi Soto & Vooren 2004 (Brazilian striped rabbitfish) Hydrolagus mccoskeri Barnett, Didier, Long & Ebert 2006 (Galápagos ghostshark) Hydrolagus melanophasma James, Ebert, Long & Didier 2009 (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark) Hydrolagus mirabilis Collett 1904 (large-eyed rabbitfish) Hydrolagus mitsukurii Jordan & Snyder 1904 (spookfish) Hydrolagus novaezealandiae Fowler 1911 (dark ghostshark) Hydrolagus ogilbyi Waite 1898 Hydrolagus pallidus Hardy & Stehmann 1990 Hydrolagus purpurescens Gilbert 1905 (purple chimaera) Hydrolagus trolli Didier & Séret 2002 (pointy-nosed blue chimaera) Hydrolagus waitei Fowler 1907 Family Rhinochimaeridae Garman 1901 (Longnose chimaeras) Genus Harriotta Goode & Bean 1895 Harriotta haeckeli Karrer 1972 (smallspine spookfish) Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean 1895 (Pacific longnose chimaera) Genus Neoharriotta Bigelow & Schroeder 1950 (sicklefin chimaera) Neoharriotta carri Bullis & Carpenter 1966 (dwarf sicklefin chimaera) Neoharriotta pinnata Schnakenbeck 1931 (sicklefin chimaera) Neoharriotta pumila Didier & Stehmann 1996 (Arabian sicklefin chimaera) Genus Rhinochimaera Garman 1901 Rhinochimaera africana Compagno, Stehmann & Ebert 1990 (paddlenose chimaera) Rhinochimaera atlantica Holt & Byrne 1909 (straightnose rabbitfish) Rhinochimaera pacifica Mitsukuri 1895 (Pacific spookfish)

Subclass Elasmobranchii

Superorder Batoidea

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In the classroom: List of cartilaginous fish is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Chondrichthyes, Lists of fishes, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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