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  1. cow shark, six-gilled shark, Hexanchus griseusnoun

    large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas

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  1. Cow shark

    Cow sharks are a shark family, the Hexanchidae, characterized by an additional pair or pairs of gill slits. Its 37 species are placed within the 10 genera: Gladioserratus, Heptranchias, Hexanchus, Notidanodon, Notorynchus, Pachyhexanchus, Paraheptranchias, Pseudonotidanus, Welcommia, and Weltonia.Cow sharks are considered the most primitive of all the sharks, as their skeletons resemble those of ancient extinct forms, with few modern adaptations. Their excretory and digestive systems are also unspecialized, suggesting they may resemble those of primitive shark ancestors. A possible hexanchid tooth is known from the Permian of Japan, making the family a possible extant survivor of the Permian-Triassic extinction.Their most distinctive feature, however, is the presence of a sixth, and, in two genera, a seventh, gill slit, in contrast to the five found in all other sharks. They range from 1.4 to 5.5 m (4.6 to 18.0 ft) in adult body length. Cow sharks are ovoviviparous, with the mother retaining the egg cases in her body until they hatch. They feed on relatively large fish of all kinds, including other sharks, as well as on crustaceans and carrion.The only fossil records of the cow shark consist of mainly only isolated teeth. Although skeletal remains for this species have been found from the Jurassic time period, these have been very rare and have only been found in the "Late Jurassic lithographic limestones of South Germany, Nusplingen, Solnhofen, and late Cretaceous calcareous sediments of Lebanon." Due to these sparse records some scientists conclude that the cow shark is now a more "diverse and numerous species".

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  1. cow shark

    A cow shark is a type of shark belonging to the family Hexanchidae, characterized by a broad, flattened head and six or seven pairs of gill slits, unlike most other shark species that only have five pairs. Known species of cow sharks include sevengill sharks and sixgill sharks. They are generally deep-water species, found in both open oceans and coastal waters worldwide.

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  1. Cow shark

    Cow sharks, or the Hexanchidae, are a family of sharks characterized by an additional pair or pairs of gill slits. There are currently known to be four species in three genera, Heptranchias, Hexanchus and Notorynchus,. Cow sharks are considered the most primitive of all the sharks, as their skeletons resemble those of ancient extinct forms, with few modern adaptations. Their excretory and digestive systems are also unspecialised, suggesting that they may resemble those of primitive shark ancestors. Their most distinctive feature, however, is the presence of a sixth, and, in two genera, a seventh, gill slit, in contrast to the five found in all other sharks. They range from 1.4 metres to over 5.5 metres in adult body length. Cow sharks are ovoviviparous, with the mother retaining the egg-cases in her body until they hatch. They feed on relatively large fish of all kinds, including other sharks, as well as on crustaceans and carrion. There are just four species of cow shark, in three genera: ⁕Heptranchias Rafinesque, 1810 ⁕Heptranchias perlo ⁕Hexanchus Rafinesque, 1810 ⁕Hexanchus griseus Hexanchus nakamurai Teng, 1962

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cow shark in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cow shark in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8


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