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Elasmobranchii

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Elasmobranchii (rays and sharks)
Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Bonaparte, 1838
Superorders

Batoidea (rays and skates)
Selachimorpha (sharks)

Elasmobranchii is the subclass of cartilaginous fishes that includes skates, rays and sharks. It is one of the two subclasses of cartilaginous fishes, in the class Chondrichthyes, the other being Holocephali (chimaeras).


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