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The frilled shark name of the Chlamydoselachus anguineus species derives from the extended tips of the gill filaments of the shark's six pairs of gills. The jaws of the frilled shark are able to open very wide in order to engulf larger prey. The head of the frilled shark is broad and flat, with a short, rounded snout.
Chlamydoselachus is a genus of sharks and the sole extant member of the family Chlamydoselachidae, in the order Hexanchiformes. It contains two extant and four extinct species. The most widely known species still surviving is the frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus).
The frilled shark (C. anguineus) was long thought to be the only extant member of its genus and family.The existence of a second Chlamydoselachus species off southern Africa was first suspected from a specimen caught off Lüderitz, Namibia in February 1988, by the South African research ship FRS Africana (after which this species would eventually be named).
Chlamydoselachus Garman, 1884. Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009 (southern African frilled shark) Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884 (frilled shark) †Chlamydoselachus balli Cappetta, Morrison & Adnet, 2019 †Chlamydoselachus garmani Welton, 1983 †Chlamydoselachus gracilis Antunes & Cappetta, 2002
Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884 (frilled shark) Family Hexanchidae J. E. Gray 1851 (cow sharks) Heptranchias Rafinesque, 1810. Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre, 1788) (sharpnose sevengill shark) Hexanchus Rafinesque, 1810. Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (bluntnose sixgill shark) Hexanchus nakamurai Teng, 1962 (bigeyed sixgill shark)
Most shark reports concern the more common varieties, but there are more than 400 known species of sharks, and some of them are very rare. Frilled sharks, often called 'living fossils' are one of ...
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Family Chlamydoselachidae (frilled sharks) Genus Chlamydoselachus Garman, 1884. Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & L. J. V. Compagno, 2009 (Southern African frilled shark) Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884 (frilled shark) Family Hexanchidae (cow sharks) Genus Heptranchias Rafinesque, 1810. Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre, 1788) (sharp-nose ...