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Cetorhinidae

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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, as well as two extinct genera, Caucasochasma and Keasius.

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Instance of
monotypic taxon
Parent taxon
Lamniformes
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Cetorhinus maximus atlantic.jpg
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Category:Cetorhinidae
taxon name
Cetorhinidae
taxon rank
family
Commons category
Cetorhinidae
taxon common name
brugdefamilien
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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, as well as two extinct genera, Caucasochasma and Keasius.

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cetorhinidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.