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Houndsharks
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Houndsharks

Triakidae

Houndsharks, the Triakidae, are a family of ground sharks, consisting of about 40 species in nine genera. In some classifications, the family is split into two subfamilies, with Mustelus, Scylliogaleus, and Triakis in the subfamily Triakinae, and the remaining genera in the subfamily Galeorhininae.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 47 known species

Triakine Houndsharks

subfamilyTriakinae

Galeorhine Houndsharks

subfamilyGaleorhininae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49965.