Chordate Zoology - Textbook - Y. V. Tsaryk - 2013

Chapter 4. DIVISION GNATHOSTOMES, or ECTOBRANCHIATES, GNATHOSTOMATA, seu ECTОBRANCHIATA. SUPERCLASS FISHES PISCES

4.1. CLASS CARTILAGINOUS FISHES CHONDRICHTHYES

4.1.4. Systematics

Modern cartilaginous Fishes are represented by two subclasses: elasmobranchs and holocephalans, or chimaeras.



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