Animal Diversity Web

Centroselachus crepidater

Black shark

(Also: Deepwater dogfish; Golden dogfish; Longnose dogfish; Roughskin dogfish)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Class Chondrichthyes (rays, sharks, and relatives)
        
        Elasmobranchii
        
        Order Squaliformes
        
        Family Somniosidae (Sleeper sharks)
        
        Genus Centroselachus
        
        Species Centroselachus crepidater (Black shark)