Hemipristis

Hemipristis is a genus of weasel shark that lived in Late Jurassic to recent. It contains one living species: Weasel Shark (Hemipristis elongata).

The genus was much more abundant in the past, containing several species in the same genus, now all extinct.

 Species 

 Weasel shark (Hemipristis elongata) Klunzinger, 1871
 †Hemipristis curvatus Dames, 1883
 †Hemipristis serra Agassiz, 1835
 †Hemipristis plicatilis Klunzinger, 1871
 †Hemipristis tanakai Tomita et al., 2023
 †Hemipristis intermedia Cicimurri, Ebersole, Stringer, Starnes & Phillips, 2025
 †Hemipristis liui Tao & Hu, 2008
 †Hemipristis sp. Antunes, M.T. & Jonet, S. & Nascimento, A. (1981)

 References 

Category:Hemipristis
Category:Sharks
Category:Extinct fish
Category:Animals
Category:Cretaceous
Category:Miocene
Category:Pliocene
Category:Paleocene
Category:Eocene
Category:Oligocene