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Hexanchus
(redirected from Sixgill shark)

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Noun1.Hexanchus - a genus of HexanchidaeHexanchus - a genus of Hexanchidae              
fish genus - any of various genus of fish
family Hexanchidae, Hexanchidae - primitive sharks
cow shark, Hexanchus griseus, six-gilled shark - large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas


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Sometimes, for example, they cheered for a 12-foot-long sixgill shark that made occasional appearances.
The rest of the shark species identified were the porbeagle (Lamna nasus), bigeyed thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus), smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena), bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus), sandbar shark (Carcharinus plumbeus), longnose spurdog (Squalus blainvillei), smoothhound (Mustelus mustelus), and basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus).
NEWPORT Aquarium gets new shark: The newest resident in the Oregon Coast Aquarium's "Passages of the Deep" exhibit is a six-foot sixgill shark, the first of its kind in the exhibit, which features five other species of sharks.
 
 
 
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