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Euselachii

Chondrichthyes

Taxonomy
Euselachii was named by Hay (1902). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Pinheiro et al. (2013).

It was reranked as the order Euselachii by Cassier (1966), Zangerl (1981), Williams (2001), Duncan (2004), Chrzastek (2008); it was reranked as the superorder Euselachii by Cappetta (1987), Murry (1989), Biddle (1993), Kriwet (2008); it was reranked as the infraclass Euselachii by Long (2011), Skinner et al. (2020); it was reranked as the subclass Euselachii by Nelson et al. (2016), Ebersole et al. (2024); it was reranked as the unranked clade Euselachii by Long (1992), Cappetta (1992), Forey et al. (2003), Cahuzac et al. (2007), Ginter et al. (2010), Engelbrecht et al. (2017), Engelbrecht et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019), Shimada et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Plagiostomata by Hay (1902); to Selachii by Jordan (1963); to Euselachiformes by Case (1978), Case (1979), Case and Schwimmer (1988); to Elasmobranchii by Biddle (1993), Delsate (2003); to Cladodontomorphi by Ginter et al. (2010); to Elasmobranchii by Engelbrecht et al. (2017); to Elasmobranchii by Cassier (1966), Zangerl (1981), Cappetta (1987), Murry (1989), Long (1992), Cappetta (1992), Dica et al. (1996), Duffin (1998), Ivanov (1999), Duffin (2001), Williams (2001), Peng et al. (2001), Delsate et al. (2002), Forey et al. (2003), Duncan (2004), Everhart (2004), Cahuzac et al. (2007), Kriwet et al. (2007), Chrzastek (2008), Kriwet (2008), Long (2011), Pinheiro et al. (2013), Engelbrecht et al. (2017), Skinner et al. (2020), Shimada et al. (2024); and to Chondrichthyes by Nelson et al. (2016), Ebersole et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2024).