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    Species Accepted

    Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

    Bluntnose Six-gill Shark

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      53 results
      Almindelig seksgællet haj Danish
      Bluntnose Six-gill Shark English
      Bluntnose sixgill English
      Bull Shark English
      Cañabota gris Spanish
      Cow Shark English
      Glavonja Croatian
      Grauhai German
      Grey Shark English
      Großer Grauhai German

      Treatments

      12 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      25 results
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      Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France, 307 pp. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=9269
      Compagno, L. J. V. (1984). FAO Species Catalogue No. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Fish. Synop. (125) Vol 4, Part, 1FAO, Rome (246): pp. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=5947
      Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco., Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=81
      Gillespie, G. E. (1993). An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 1918: 116 p. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=155121
      Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=261686
      Serralheiro, A. M. R. (1954) Contribuicao para o conhecimento da fauna ictiologica do Miocenico marinho de Portugal Continental. Revista da Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, 4, 39-119.
      Dhora, DH. (2008). Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=151643
      Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. Panckoucke, Paris, i–lvi + 1–215, Pls. A–B. 1–100. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11660 10.5962/bhl.title.11660
      PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=147411

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