Fish Family

• Carcharhinidae

  Largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal...

• Lamnidae

  Oceanic sharks.

• Triakidae

  Small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins.

• Orectolobidae

  Nurse sharks and carpet sharks.

• Squalidae

  Dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin.

• Hexanchidae

  Primitive sharks.

• Alopiidae

  Thresher sharks.

• Carchariidae

  Sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae.

• Rhincodontidae

  Small-toothed sharks comprising only one species.

• Scyliorhinidae

  Small bottom-dwelling sharks.

• Sphyrnidae

  Hammerhead sharks; bonnethead sharks.

• Squatinidae

  Bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks.

• Cetorhinidae

  In some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks.

Animal Order

• Rajiformes

  Fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; saw...

• Torpediniformes

  Rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes.

Also contains

• elasmobranch

  Any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous...