ADW: Squalus: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Class Chondrichthyes (rays, sharks, and relatives)
        
        Elasmobranchii
        
        Order Squaliformes
        
        Family Squalidae (Dogfish sharks)
        
        Genus Squalus
        
        Species Squalus acanthias (Blue dog)
        
        Species Squalus acutirostris
        
        Species Squalus albifrons (Eastern highfin spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus altipinnis (Western highfin spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus blainville (Bigeye dogfish)
        
        Species Squalus brevirostris (Shortnose dogfish)
        
        Species Squalus bucephalus (Bighead spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus chloroculus (Greeneye spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus crassispinus (Fatspine spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus cubensis (Cuban dogfish)
        
        Species Squalus edmundsi (Edmund's spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus grahami (Eastern longnose spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus griffini (Northern spiny dogfish)
        
        Species Squalus hemipinnis (Indonesian shortsnout spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus japonicus (Japanese spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus lalannei
        
        Species Squalus megalops (Bluntnose spiny dogfish)
        
        Species Squalus melanurus (Blacktail spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus mitsukurii (Blainvilles dogfish)
        
        Species Squalus montalbani (Indonesian greeneye spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus nasutus (Western longnose spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus notocaudatus (Bartail spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus rancureli (Cyrano spurdog)
        
        Species Squalus raoulensis (Kermadec spiny dogfish)
        
        Species Squalus uyato (Endeavor dogfish)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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