Stegostoma
| Stegostoma Temporal range: Middle Eocene-recent, | |
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| Stegostoma tigrinum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Orectolobiformes |
| Family: | Stegostomatidae T. N. Gill, 1862 |
| Genus: | Stegostoma J. P. Müller & Henle, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Squalus varius Seba, 1759 | |
Stegostoma is a genus of sharks, the sole member of the family, Stegosmatidae, that includes one living species, the zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum).[1] It contains one described extinct species, S. tethysiensis.[2]
References
- ↑ Nakatani, Kazuhiro (1973), "An Albino Zebra Shark Stegostoma fasciatum from the Indian Ocean, with Comments on Albinism in Elasmobranchs", 魚類学雑誌, 20, The Ichthyological Society of Japan, doi:10.11369/jji1950.20.120, 2, retrieved 2026-05-02
- ↑ Sylvain Adnet, Rodolphe Tabuce (2020). "Diversity and renewal of tropical elasmobranchs around the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in North Africa: New data from the lagoonal deposits of Djebel el Kébar, Central Tunisia". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1085.