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    SUBCLASS ELASMOBRANCHII

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Sharks; rays; dogfishes; skatesplay

    Synonyms:

    Elasmobranchii; Selachii; subclass Elasmobranchii; subclass Selachii

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("subclass Elasmobranchii" is a kind of...):

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "subclass Elasmobranchii"):

    Batoidei; order Batoidei; order Rajiformes; Rajiformes (fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes)

    order Torpediniformes; Torpediniformes (rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes)

    family Squatinidae; Squatinidae (bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks)

    family Sphyrnidae; Sphyrnidae (hammerhead sharks; bonnethead sharks)

    family Squalidae; Squalidae (dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin)

    family Triakidae; Triakidae (small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins)

    Carcharhinidae; family Carcharhinidae (largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks)

    family Scyliorhinidae; Scyliorhinidae (small bottom-dwelling sharks)

    family Rhincodontidae; Rhincodontidae (small-toothed sharks comprising only one species)

    Carchariidae; family Carchariidae; family Odontaspididae; Odontaspididae (sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae)

    family Orectolobidae; Orectolobidae (nurse sharks and carpet sharks)

    Alopiidae; family Alopiidae (thresher sharks)

    Cetorhinidae; family Cetorhinidae (in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks)

    family Lamnidae; Lamnidae (oceanic sharks)

    family Hexanchidae; Hexanchidae (primitive sharks)

    elasmobranch; selachian (any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates)

    Holonyms ("subclass Elasmobranchii" is a member of...):

    Chondrichthyes; class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)

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