Lamniformes

== Translingual == === Etymology === From Lamna +‎ -iformes. === Proper noun === Lamniformes A taxonomic order within the superorder Selachimorpha – mackerel sharks, of all oceans worldwide, possibly excluding the Arctic and the Southern Oceans. ==== Hypernyms ==== (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Chondrichthyes – class; Elasmobranchii – subclass ==== Hyponyms ==== (order): Alopiidae (thresher sharks), Cetorhinidae (basking sharks), Lamnidae (great mackerel sharks), Megachasmidae (megamouth sharks), Mitsukurinidae (goblin sharks), Odontaspididae (sand tigers), Pseudocarchariidae (crocodile sharks) – families †Anacoracidae – extinct family === References === Lamniformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Lamniformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Lamniformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Lamniformes at the Tree of Life Web Project Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI