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Definition of Subclass Elasmobranchii
1. Noun. Sharks; rays; dogfishes; skates.
Group relationships: Chondrichthyes, Class Chondrichthyes
Member holonyms: Elasmobranch, Selachian, Family Hexanchidae, Hexanchidae, Family Lamnidae, Lamnidae, Cetorhinidae, Family Cetorhinidae, Alopiidae, Family Alopiidae, Family Orectolobidae, Orectolobidae, Carchariidae, Family Carchariidae, Family Odontaspididae, Odontaspididae, Family Rhincodontidae, Rhincodontidae, Family Scyliorhinidae, Scyliorhinidae, Carcharhinidae, Family Carcharhinidae, Family Triakidae, Triakidae, Family Squalidae, Squalidae, Family Sphyrnidae, Sphyrnidae, Family Squatinidae, Squatinidae, Order Torpediniformes, Torpediniformes, Batoidei, Order Batoidei, Order Rajiformes, Rajiformes
Generic synonyms: Class
Literary usage of Subclass Elasmobranchii
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"For present purposes, fishes may be divided as follows: Class Pisces or true fishes.
subclass Elasmobranchii or cartilaginous fishes. ..."
2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"CHAPTER IV SHARKS AND RAYS—subclass Elasmobranchii THE last subclass of the fishes
is represented by the existing sharks ..."
3. A Text-book in General Zoölogy by Glenn Washington Herrick (1907)
"CLASSIFICATION OF THE FISHES Class — Pisces. Subclass — Elasmobranchii. Order —
Selachii. Types of Order. ..."
4. A Text-book in General Zoölogy by Glenn Washington Herrick (1907)
"CLASSIFICATION OF THE FISHES Class — Pisces. Subclass — Elasmobranchii. Order —
Selachii. Types of Order. ..."
5. A Text-book in General Zoölogy by Glenn Washington Herrick (1907)
"CLASSIFICATION OF THE FISHES Class — Pisces. Subclass — Elasmobranchii. Order —
Selachii. Types of Order. ..."
6. Chimæroid Fishes and Their Development by Bashford Dean (1906)
"... acquired such different characters that they are to be given a high rank among
the divisions of the subclass Elasmobranchii, the equivalent, let us say, ..."
7. Chimæroid Fishes and Their Development by Bashford Dean (1906)
"... acquired such different characters that they are to be given a high rank among
the divisions of the subclass Elasmobranchii, the equivalent, let us say, ..."
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