Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Chondrichthyes > Class Elasmobranchii > Subclass Neoselachii > Infraclass Selachii > Superorder Squalomorphi > Order Squaliformes

Somniosidae Jordan, 1888

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Centroscymnus Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864
Centroselachus Garman, 1913
Scymnodalatias Garrick, 1956
Scymnodon Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864
Somniosus Lesueur, 1818
Zameus Jordan & Fowler, 1903

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: sleeper sharks sources: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).

Japanese: オンデンザメ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: håkjerringfamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: håkjerringfamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: håkäringhajar

Literature

basis of record	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
taxonomy source	Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.

Genbank

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Somniosidae Jordan, 1888. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267047