Cetorhinidae
Sign in to saveCetorhinidae 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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- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lamniformes
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- Category:Cetorhinidae
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- Cetorhinidae
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- 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.