Lamnidae
Mackerel sharks Temporal range: [1]
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Great white shark Carcharodon carcharias | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Lamniformes |
Family: | Lamnidae J. P. Müller and Henle, 1838 |
Extant genera | |
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The Lamnidae are the family of mackerel sharks known as white sharks.[2] They are large, fast-swimming predatory fish found in oceans worldwide. The name of the family is formed from the Greek word lamna, which means "fish of prey", and was derived from the Greek legendary creature, the Lamia.[3]
These sharks have pointed snouts, spindle-shaped bodies, and large gill openings. The first dorsal fin is large, high, stiff and angular or somewhat rounded. The second dorsal and anal fins are minute. The caudal peduncle has a couple of less distinct keels. The teeth are gigantic. The fifth gill opening is in front of the pectoral fin and spiracles are sometimes absent. They are powerful, heavily built sharks, sometimes weighing nearly twice as much as other sharks of comparable length from other families. Many sharks in the family are among the fastest-swimming fish, although the massive great white shark is slower due to its large size.
Genera and species[]
The family contains five living species in three genera and these selected extinct genera and species:[1]
- Genus † Hora, 1939
- † Hora, 1939
- Genus Carcharodon Smith, 1838
- Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) (great white shark)
- †Carcharodon caifassii Lawley, 1876
- †Carcharodon hubbelli Ehret, Macfadden, Jones, Devries, Foster & Salas-Gismondi, 2012
- Genus †Corax Agassiz 1843
- Genus †Cosmopolitodus Glikman, 1964
- †Cosmopolitodus hastalis Agassiz, 1843 (broad-toothed mako)
- Genus †Carcharomodus
- †Carcharomodus escheri Agassiz, 1843
- Genus Isurus Rafinesque, 1810
- Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 (shortfin mako)
- Isurus paucus , 1966 (longfin mako)
- † Agassiz, 1843
- † Leriche, 1910
- † Agassiz, 1843
- † Saito, 1961
- †Isurus planus Agassiz, 1856
- † Leriche, 1905
- † Mehrotra, Mishra & Srivastava, 1973
- Genus †Isurolamna Cappetta, 1976
- † Casier, 1946
- † Glikman & Zhelezko, 1985
- † Le Hon, 1871
- † Leriche, 1905
- Genus † Kozlov in Zhelezko & Kozlov, 1999
- † Kozlov in Zhelezko & Kozlov, 1999
- Genus † Glikman, 1964
- † Glikman, 1964
- † Glikman & Zhelezko in Zhelezko & Kozlov, 1999
- Genus Lamna Cuvier, 1816
- Lamna ditropis Hubbs & , 1947 (salmon shark)
- Lamna nasus Bonnaterre, 1788 (porbeagle)
- † Davis, 1888
- † Davis, 1888
- † Davis, 1888
- † Davis, 1888
- † Cragin, 1894
- † Coquand, 1860
- † Agassiz, 1843
- Genus †Lethenia Leriche, 1910
- † Winkler, 1880
- Genus †Macrorhizodus Glikman, 1964
- † Leriche, 1942
- † Zhelezko, 1999
See also[]
- List of sharks
- Shark
- List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
References[]
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2009). "Lamnidae" in FishBase. January 2009 version.
- ^ McEachran, J.; Fechhelm, J.D. (1998). Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. 1: Myxiniformes to Gasterosteiformes. Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-292-75206-1. OCLC 38468784. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ ISBN 9781258302863: A source-book of biological names and terms, 1944, Edmund Carroll Jaeger
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Lamnidae" in FishBase. March 2006 version.
Wikispecies has information related to Lamnidae. |
- Lamnidae
- Extant Late Cretaceous first appearances
- Ovoviviparous fish
- Shark families
- Taxa named by Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
- Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller