ELASMOBRANCHII
(sharks and rays)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
ClassELASMOBRANCHII (sharks and rays)
Informal[Pisces] (fishes)
SuperclassGNATHOSTOMATA (jawed craniates)
SubphylumVERTEBRATA (vertebrates)
PhylumCHORDATA (vertebrates)
SuperphylumDEUTEROSTOMIA (deuterostomes)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Vas, P. 1991 A field guide to the Sharks of British Coastal Waters Field Studies 7(4): 651-686.

Egg Cases

Bor, P. Egg-capsules of sharks, skates and chimaeras home.planet.nl/~bor00213/
Shark Trust *** The Great Eggcase Hunt ***(Superseded) www.eggcase.org/
Shark Trust The Great Eggcase Hunt www.sharktrust.org/en/great_eggcase_hunt
() Trewella, S. & Hatcher, J. 2015 The Essential Guide to Beachcombing and the Strandline 304pp, Wild Nature Press

ELASMOBRANCHII (sharks and rays) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ELASMOBRANCHII (sharks and rays)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 6 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ELASMOBRANCHII (sharks and rays)
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