Pseudotriakidae
Sign in to saveThe Pseudotriakidae are a small family of ground sharks, belonging to the order Carcharhiniformes, containing the false catsharks (genera Pseudotriakis and Planonasus) and gollumsharks (genus Gollum). It contains the only ground shark species that exhibit intrauterine oophagy, in which developing fetuses are nourished by eggs produced by their mother.
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Vinony's link graph records 274 inbound references to Pseudotriakidae, and connects out to scalloped hammerhead, false catshark and Animalia.
Vinony files it under Pseudotriakidae, Shark families and Taxa named by Theodore Gill.
Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
false catsharks
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassElasmobranchii
- OrderCarcharhiniformes
- FamilyPseudotriakidae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Carcharhiniformes
- Image
- Pseudotriakis acrales by jordan and snyder.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pseudotriakidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Pseudotriakidae
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Pseudotriakidae
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Genera
- Undescribed species
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The Pseudotriakidae are a small family of ground sharks, belonging to the order Carcharhiniformes, containing the false catsharks (genera Pseudotriakis and Planonasus) and gollumsharks (genus Gollum). It contains the only ground shark species that exhibit intrauterine oophagy, in which developing fetuses are nourished by eggs produced by their mother.
==Genera== The Pseudotriakidae contains the following genera:
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