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Home Dictionary Name: sharking Page: 4Hybodont
Of pertaining to or resembling an extinct genus of sharks Hybodus especially in the form of the teeth which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones...
Houndfish
Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus of which there are several species as the smooth houndfish Galeus canis of Europe and America called also houndshark and dogfish...
Heterocercal
Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail which is usually longer than the lower one as in sharks...
Hammerhead
A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaeligna having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head which gives it a hammer shape The Sphyrna zygaeligna is found in the North Atlantic Called also hammer fish and balance fish...
Gangetic
Pertaining to or inhabiting the Ganges River as the Gangetic shark...
VerbarGalei
That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks...
Elasmobranchii
A subclass of fishes comprising the sharks the rays and the Chimaeligra The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous...
Dogfish
A small shark of many species of the genera Mustelus Scyllium Spinax etc...
Chondropterygii
A group of fishes characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton It includes both ganoids sturgeons etc and selachians sharks but is now often restricted to the latter...
Chondrichthyes
the class of fishes comprising the cartilaginous fishes which includes the sharks...
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