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]
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Cetorhinidae is a family of filter feeding mackerel sharks, whose members are commonly known as basking sharks. It includes the extant basking shark, Cetorhinus...
protection. The basking shark is the only extant member of the family Cetorhinidae, part of the mackerel shark order Lamniformes. Johan Ernst Gunnerus first...
form a monophyletic sister group to the clade containing the families Cetorhinidae (basking shark) and Lamnidae (mackerel sharks). The megamouth shark (Megachasma...
Megachasmidae, though some scientists have suggested it may belong in the family Cetorhinidae. The appearance of the megamouth is distinctive, but little else is known...
Megachasmidae, though suggestion has been made that it may belong in the family Cetorhinidae, of which the basking shark is currently the sole extant member. Megachasma...
†Aquilolamna Vullo et al., 2021 †Aquilolamna milarcae Vullo et al., 2021 Family Cetorhinidae Gill, 1862 Genus Cetorhinus Blainville, 1816 Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus...
Antarctica. 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...
living species: Family Alopiidae Bonaparte, 1838 (Thresher sharks) Family Cetorhinidae Gill, 1862 (Basking sharks) Family Lamnidae J. P. Müller and Henle, 1838...
suggests affinity with the megamouth shark (Megachasmidae), basking shark (Cetorhinidae), thresher sharks (Alopiidae), and mackerel sharks (Lamnidae). More recent...
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