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    Cow shark (redirect from Hexanchidae)
    Cow sharks are a shark family, the Hexanchidae, characterized by an additional pair or pairs of gill slits. Its 37 species are placed within the 10 genera:...
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    extant families in the order alongside the cow sharks in the family Hexanchidae, and the only members of the suborder Chlamydoselachoidei. They are now...
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    shark) Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884 (frilled shark) Family Hexanchidae J. E. Gray 1851 (cow sharks) Heptranchias Rafinesque, 1810 Heptranchias...
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    authored in 1788 by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. As a member of the family Hexanchidae, it has more close relatives in the fossil record than living relatives...
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    cepedianus) is the only extant member of the genus Notorynchus, in the family Hexanchidae. It is recognizable because of its seven gill slits, while most shark...
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    bigeyed sixgill shark (Hexanchus nakamurai) is a cow shark of the family Hexanchidae. Its dorsal surface has a brownish-gray color, and is sharply separated...
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    Sharks portal Notorynchus is a genus of deepwater sharks in the family Hexanchidae. There is one extant species. Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus...
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    The La Meseta Formation is a sedimentary sequence deposited during the Eocene on Seymour Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is noted for...
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  • The shark order Hexanchiformes (in a broad sense, not only comprising the cow sharks, but also including the frilled sharks, Chlamydoselachidae) is often...
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    Chlamydoselachidae Hexanchidae (Cow sharks)...
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