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Taxonomy
The Subfamily Galeorhininae is a member of the Family Triakidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Galeorhininae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Cartilaginous Fishes
- Subclass: Elasmobranchii
- Shark-Like Fishes
- Infraclass: Euselachii
- Cohort: Neoselachii
- Order: Carcharhiniformes
- Ground Sharks
- Family: Triakidae
Gray, 1851 - Houndsharks
- Subfamily: Galeorhininae
- Family: Triakidae
Gray, 1851 - Houndsharks
- Order: Carcharhiniformes
- Ground Sharks
- Cohort: Neoselachii
- Infraclass: Euselachii
- Subclass: Elasmobranchii
- Shark-Like Fishes
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Cartilaginous Fishes
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Subfamily Galeorhininae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (6): Furgaleus · Galeorhinus · Gogolia · Hemitriakis · Hypogaleus · Iago
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species and subspecies in the Subfamily Galeorhininae.
Genera
Furgaleus
The whiskery shark, Furgaleus macki, is a of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Furgaleus, found worldwide on the continental shelf in the subtropical eastern Indian Ocean, from southern Australia from Shark Bay (probably as far north as Exmouth Gulf) to eastern Victoria and Tasmania at depths of up to 220 m. It grows to 1.6 m long. [more]
Galeorhinus
The school shark, tope shark, soupfin shark or snapper shark, Galeorhinus galeus, is a of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Galeorhinus, found worldwide in subtropical seas at depths of up to 550 m. It grows to 2 m long. [more]
Gogolia
The sailback houndshark, Gogolia filewoodi, is a of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Gogolia, found in deep water on the continental shelf off northern Papua New Guinea. The only known specimen was taken at a depth of 73 m - it was 74 cm long. [more]
Hemitriakis
Hemitriakis is a genus of in the family Triakidae. [more]
Hypogaleus
The blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, is a of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Hypogaleus, found in deep water on the continental shelf in the Indo-West Pacific from East Africa and the Persian Gulf to Taiwan and Japan, and reported from Australia, at depths of between 40 and 230 m. Its length is up to 1.27 m long. [more]
Iago
Iago is a character in 's Othello. The character's source is traced to Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moor" in Gli Hecatommithi (1565). There, the character is simply "the ensign". Iago is soldier and Othello's ancient (or, standard bearer). He is the husband of Emilia. [more]
More info about the Genus Iago may be found here.
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