Living Beings

    family · Scientific classification

    Carcharhinidae

    Inspect in the tree ↗Browse published profiles
    A great hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran.
    Great hammerhead shark · NOAA / NMFS / Mississippi Laboratory · CC BY 3.0

    Classification in context

    Lineage

    1. LifeLife
    2. DomainEukaryota
    3. KingdomAnimalia
    4. PhylumChordata
    5. ClassChondrichthyes
    6. OrderCarcharhiniformes
    7. FamilyCarcharhinidae
    Advanced classification

    Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

    1. cellular organisms cellular root
    2. Eukaryota domain
    3. Opisthokonta clade
    4. Metazoa kingdom
    5. Eumetazoa clade
    6. Bilateria clade
    7. Deuterostomia clade
    8. Chordata phylum
    9. Craniata subphylum
    10. Vertebrata clade
    11. Gnathostomata clade
    12. Chondrichthyes class
    13. Elasmobranchii subclass
    14. Selachii infraclass
    15. Galeomorphii clade
    16. Galeoidea superorder
    17. Carcharhiniformes order
    18. Carcharhinidae family

    NCBI Taxonomy (2026-11-05 reconciled backbone) · Taxon source ↗

    Previous source record

    Carcharhinidae · family · Original classification source

    The original identifier and source were retained when adopting the dated NCBI backbone. Different sources may use different names, ranks or group circumscriptions.

    Records in this collection

    Principal members

    1 published profile in this branch.

    Sphyrna · genus

    Within this taxon

    Published profiles

    Species · Sphyrna

    Great hammerhead shark

    Sphyrna mokarran

    The great hammerhead is the largest hammerhead species. The front margin of its broad head is nearly straight, with a notch in …