Suborder Orectoloboidei Applegate 1974 (carpet shark)
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes
Parent taxon: Orectolobiformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2024
See also Case 1978, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acanthoscyllium, Akaimia, Annea, Brachaeluridae, Columbusia, Crossorhinidae, Dorsetoscyllium, Garrigascyllium, Hemiscylliidae, Heterophorcynus, Magistrauia, Mesiteia, Orectolobidae, Orectoloboidea, Ornatoscyllium, Parahemiscyllium, Parascyllioidei, Parasquatina, Rhincodontidae, Rhinocodontidae, Stegostomatidae
Subtaxa: Hemiscyllioidea
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Orectoloboidei in the database