Elasmobranch

Elasmobranch Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology (ls´mbrngk), cartilaginous fish, member of the subclass Elasmobranchii of the vertebrate class Chondrichthyes (see Chordata). This group includes sharks, skates, and rays.

Elasmobranchii is the subclass of cartilaginous fishes that includes skates, rays and sharks. It is one of the two subclasses of cartilaginous fishes, in the class Chondrichthyes, the other being Holocephali (chimaeras).

Almost exclusively parasitic in the intestine of Elasmobranch fish. The metacestode-larva occurs free in the intestine of fish, Cephalopods and crabs, and is known as Scolex polymorphus. [[Order Ii]]I. - Diphyllidea.

Myxosporean parasites of elasmobranchs *Ricky Gleeson (University of Queensland, April/ May) Biogeography of Great Barrier Reef fish trematodes ...

Skates and Rays are also found in the Subclass Elasmobranchii: Order Rajiiformes (456 species, marine and freshwater): sawfishes, electric rays, guitarfishes, skates, deepwater stingray, South African stingray, stingrays, round stingrays, ...

Lovejoy, N. R. 1996. Systematics of myliobatid elasmobranchs: With emphasis on the phylogeny and historical biogeography of neotropical freshwater stingrays. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 117:207-257.

The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a distinctively-marked member of the subclass Elasmobranchii of the class Chondrichthyes. It is the largest shark and also the largest living fish.

This distinctively-marked shark is the only member of its genus Rhincodon and its family, Rhincodontidae (called Rhinodontes before 1984), which is grouped into the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes.

Kingdom Animalia Â- Phylum Chordata Â- Subphylum Vertebrata Â- Class Chondrichthyes Â- Subclass Elasmobranchii Order Hexanchiformes Chlamydoselachidae ...

Some types of shark are very rare (like the Great White Shark and the Megamouth Shark) and some are quite common (like the Dogfish Shark and Bull Shark). Sharks belong to the group of cartilaginous fish, the 'Elasmobranchii', that includes the Sharks, ...

See also: Shark, Whale, Diver, Whale Shark, Skate