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Frilled Shark
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Sharks & rays

Frilled Shark

Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishFrilled Shark
DutchFranjehaai
SpanishTiburón anguila
Chinese皱鳃鲨
Scientific nameChlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884

About this species

The frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), also known as the lizard shark, is one of the two extant species of shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae (the other is the southern African frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus africana). The frilled shark is considered a living fossil, because of its primitive, anguilliform (eel-like) physical traits, such as a dark-brown color, amphistyly (the articulation of the jaws to the cranium), and a 2.0 m (6.6 ft)–long body, which has dorsal, pelvic, and anal fins located towards the tail. The common name, frilled shark, derives from the fringed appearance of the six pairs of gill slits at the shark's throat.

The two species of frilled shark are distributed throughout regions of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, usually in the waters of the outer continental shelf and of the upper continental slope, where the sharks usually live near the ocean floor, near biologically productive areas of the ecosystem.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassElasmobranchii
OrderHexanchiformes
FamilyChlamydoselachidae
GenusChlamydoselachus