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Stegostoma

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Stegostoma
Temporal range: Middle Eocene-recent, 40–0 Ma
Stegostoma tigrinum
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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  1. ^ Nakatani, Kazuhiro (1973), An Albino Zebra Shark Stegostoma fasciatum from the Indian Ocean, with Comments on Albinism in Elasmobranchs, The Ichthyological Society of Japan, doi:10.11369/jji1950.20.120, 2, retrieved 2026-05-02
  2. ^ 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". Palaeontologica Electronica.