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Somniosidae  Jordan, 1888
Taxonomic Serial No.: 811018

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Somniosinae
 
    Somnosidae Jordan, 1888
  
  Common Name(s): sleeper sharks [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2003   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassChondrichthyes   
                      ClassChondrichthyes  – cartilaginous fishes, rays, sharks, condrictes, peixe cartilaginoso, tubarão, poissons cartilagineux, raies, requins  
                         SubclassElasmobranchii  – cartilaginous fishes, rays, sharks, skates, torpedoes  
                            SuperorderEuselachii   
                               OrderSqualiformes Compagno, 1973 – dogfish sharks  
                                  FamilySomniosidae Jordan, 1888 – sleeper sharks  
    Direct Children:  
                                     Genus Centroscymnus Barbosa du Bocage and Brito Capello, 1864 – velvet dogfish 
                                     Genus Scymnodalatias Garrick, 1956 – spineless velvet dogfish 
                                     Genus Scymnodon Barbosa du Bocage and Brito Capello, 1864 – largetooth velvet dogfishes 
                                     Genus Somniosus Lesueur, 1818 – sleeper sharks 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Compagno, Leonard J. V. / Hamlett, William C., ed.  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes   
  Page(s): 471-498   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-6048-2   
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  Reference for: Somniosidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Compagno, Leonard J. V. / Hamlett, William C., ed.  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title: Systematics and Body Form   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes   
  Page(s): 1-42   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-6048-2   
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  Reference for: Somniosidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Jordan, David Starr  
  Publication Date: 1910   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States, Including the District North and East of the Ozark Mountains, South of the Laurentian Hills, North of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and East of the Missouri River Inclusive of...   
  Page(s): i - vi + 393   
  Publisher: A.C. McClurg and Company   
  Publication Place: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A   
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  Notes: Title continues: 'Marine Species, Tenth Edition'   
  Reference for: Somniosidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.  
  Publication Date: 2006   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Fourth Edition   
  Page(s): xix + 601   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-25031-7   
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  Reference for: Somniosidae   
       

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