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Cestraciontidae (bullhead shark)

Chondrichthyes - Cestraciontidae

Taxonomy
Cestraciontidae was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Heterodontidae by Hay (1902).

It was assigned to Plagiostomi by Owen (1859), Leidy (1873); to Selachii by Woodward (1889), Woodward (1916); to Plagiostomi by Weiler (1938); and to Elasmobranchii by Leriche (1942), Sahni and Chhabra (1976).