What animal classification is a shark?
1 Answer
Jan 9, 2017
Shark is a cartilagenous fish, a vertebrate. Shark is included under:
- Phylum Chordata
- Subphylum Vertebrata
- Class Chondrichthyes
- Subclass Elasmobranchii
- Infraclass Euselachii
Many sharks are known from their fossil remains. Oldest remains are more than 400 million years old.
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(Megalodon* - extinct, the top two, Whale shark, Great white shark)
