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Nomititis lovulitos
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species of shark (Hexanchus griseus)
Species
Near Threatenedbluntnose sixgill shark
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassElasmobranchii
- OrderHexanchiformes
- FamilyHexanchidae
Chile Central
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Six-gill shark.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hexanchus griseus
- taxon name
- Hexanchus griseus
- taxon common name
- šesteroškrgar
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/abf8082d-c179-4cb2-acc4-3cdef16c4341
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The bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus), often simply called the cow shark, is the largest hexanchoid shark, growing to 18 ft (5.5 m) in length. It is found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide and its diet is widely varied by region.
The bluntnose sixgill is a species of sixgill sharks, of genus Hexanchus, a genus that also consists of two other species: the bigeye sixgill shark (Hexanchus nakamurai) and the Atlantic sixgill shark (Hexanchus vitulus). Through their base pairs of mitochondrial genes COI and ND2, these three species of sixgills widely differ from one another.