Order Hexanchiformes – cow and frill sharks Family Hexanchidae – cow sharks Sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (All oceans) Bigeye sixgill shark, Hexanchus vitulus Springer and Waller, 1969 (Atlantic, south-west Indian Ocean) Spotted sevengill cowshark or broadnose sevengill shark, Notorynchus cepedianus (Péron, 1807) (Namibia to East London) Order Lamniformes – mackerel sharks Family Alopiidae – thresher sharks Thintail thresher, Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (throughout SA waters, more common in southern part) Family Cetorhinidae – basking sharks Basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) (temperate waters of all oceans, a few records from south-western Cape) Family Lamnidae – mackerel sharks Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) (Namibia to Mozambique) Shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 (warm temperate and tropical waters of all oceans) Porbeagle, Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Temperate oceans, recorded from False Bay and possibly Knysna) Family Mitsukurinidae – goblin sharks Goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (west of Cape Town, and off Transkei coast) Family Odontaspididae Ragged-tooth shark or spotted ragged-tooth shark, Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 (Cape Point to Mozambique) (syn. Eugomphodus taurus) Family Pseudocarchariidae – crocodile sharks Crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936) (once found near Cape Town) Order Orectolobiformes – carpet sharks Family Rhincodontidae – whale sharks Whale shark, Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 (type specimen from Table Bay, normally northern KwaZulu-Natal) Order Pristiophoriformes – sawsharks Family Pristiophoridae Sixgill sawshark, Pliotrema warreni Regan, 1906 (False Bay to southern Mozambique) Order Squaliformes – dogfish sharks Family Echinorhinidae – bramble sharks Bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Namibia to southern KwaZulu-Natal) Family Squalidae – dogfishes Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Western Cape) Centrophorus squamosis Bonnaterre, 1788 (Western Cape and Algoa Bay) Centroscyllium fabricii (Reinhardt, 1825) (Western Cape) Centroscymnus crepidater (Bocage and Capello, 1864) (Western Cape) Deania calcea (Lowe, 1839) (Cape Point and Algoa Bay) Deania profundorum (Smith and Radcliffe, 1912) (West coast and KwaZulu-Natal) Deania quadrispinosus (McCulloch, 1915) (northern Namibia to southern Mozambique) Etmopterus brachurus Smith and Radcliffe, 1912 (Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and southern Mozambique) Etmopterus granulosus (Günther, 1880) (Cape Point) Etmopterus sp. (off south-western Cape Province, northern KwaZulu-Natal) Euprotomicroides zantedeschia Hulley and Penrith, 1966 (west of Cape Town) Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (all oceans) Flatiron shark, Oxynotus centrina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Walvis Bay to Cape Town) Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus (Schneider, 1801) (off Cape Columbine) Spotted spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 (south-western Cape to Port Elizabeth) Bluntnose spiny dogfish, Squalus megalops (MacLeay, 1882) (Namibia to