Cow shark
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Cow sharks
| image = Six-gill shark.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Chondrichthyes
| ordo = Hexanchiformes
| familia = Hexanchidae
| familia_authority = Gray, 1851
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
Heptranchias perlo
Hexanchus griseus
Hexanchus vitulus
Notorynchus cepedianus
}}
Cow sharks (Hexanchidae) are a family of sharks characterized by extra pairs of gill slits.
There are four extant species of cow shark:
- Heptranchias perlo (Sharpnose sevengill shark)
- Hexanchus griseus (Bluntnose sixgill shark)
- Hexanchus vitulus (Bigeye sixgill shark)
- Notorynchus cepedianus (Broadnose sevengill shark)
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