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Chondrichthyes (/ k ɒ n ˈ d r ɪ k θ i. iː z /; from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros) 'cartilage', and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) 'fish') is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.
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Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fishes are the sharks and their relatives. They have jaws and paired fins, paired nostrils, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. They are divided into two subclasses: Elasmobranchii ( sharks, rays and skates) and Holocephali ( chimaera, sometimes called ghost sharks).
The skate belongs to the class Chondrichthyes. This class consists of all the cartilaginous fishes, including sharks and stingrays. Chondrichthyes is divided into two subclasses; of which Elasmobranchii includes skates, rays, and sharks. Skates are the most diverse elasmobranch group, comprising over 20% of the known species.
Class. Chondrichthyes. 370 species. Chondrichthyes (; from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros) 'cartilage', and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) 'fish') is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyians, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.
The Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fishes are a major class of jawed fish that includes the sharks, rays, and skates, and whose skeleton is characterized by rubbery cartilage, which is very light and flexible, rather than bone, as in the bony fishes (class Osteichthyes (such as cod or salmon)).
Chondrichthyes: sharks and rays. The earliest sharks (class Chondrichthyes) first appeared in the Early Devonian about 400 million years ago, became quite prominent by the end of the Devonian, and are still successful today.
Home Science Birds, Reptiles & Other Vertebrates Fish. Evolution and classification. chondrichthians; Cladoselache; Hybodus. Two extinct chondrichthians. The earliest fossil remains of fishlike vertebrates are too fragmentary to permit tracing the modern fishes precisely to their origins.
