Cetorhinidae

{{Short description|Family of sharks}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|41.2|0|PS=Middle Eocene–present}} | image = Cetorhinus maximus atlantic.jpg | image_caption = ''Cetorhinus maximus'' | taxon = Cetorhinidae | authority = Gill, 1861<ref name="Gill 1861">{{cite journal |last1=Gill |first1=T.N. |date=1861 |title=Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America, from Greenland to Georgia |journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |volume=13 |issue=Suppl. 1 |pages=1–63 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1683130#page/569/mode/1up}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = *†''Caucasochasma'' *''Cetorhinus'' *†''Keasius'' | synonyms = *Halsydridae<br /><small>Whitley, 1934<ref name="Whitley 1934">{{cite journal |last1=Whitley |first1=G.P. |date=1934 |title=Notes on some Australian sharks |journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=180–200 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51230827#page/44/mode/1up}}</ref></small> }}

'''Cetorhinidae''' is a family of filter feeding mackerel sharks, whose members are commonly known as '''basking sharks'''. It includes the extant basking shark, ''Cetorhinus'', as well as two extinct genera, ''Caucasochasma'' and ''Keasius''.<ref name="Welton 2013">{{cite journal|last=Welton |first=B.J. |year=2013 |title=A new archaic basking shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the late Eocene of western Oregon, U.S.A., and description of the dentition, gill rakers and vertebrae of the recent basking shark ''Cetorhinus maximus'' (Gunnerus) |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=58 |pages=1–48 |url=https://nmdigital.unm.edu/digital/collection/bulletins/id/1526}}</ref><ref name="Prokofiev & Sychevskaya 2018">{{cite journal|last1=Prokofiev |first1=A.M. |last2=Sychevskaya |first2=E.K. |year=2018 |title=Basking shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the lower Oligocene of the Caucasus |journal=Journal of Ichthyology |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=127–138 |doi=10.1134/S0032945218020121 |bibcode=2018JIch...58..127P |s2cid=255271640 }}</ref>

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Category:Cetorhinidae Category:Extant Eocene first appearances Category:Shark families Category:Taxa named by Theodore Gill