Animal Diversity Web

Proscymnodon plunketi

Lord Plunket's shark

(Also: Plunket shark; Roughskin dogfish; Waites deepsea 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 Proscymnodon
        
        Species Proscymnodon plunketi (Lord Plunket's shark)