Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:004341ab-b923-4aa7-a664-e42bb8f9c8c4

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

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WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=subclass:ELASMOBRANCHII
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

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A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

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Species presence: Recorded In Australia

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Description

Elasmobranchii is one of the two subclasses of cartilaginous fish in the class Chondrichthyes , the other being Holocephali ( chimaeras ). Members of the elasmobranchii subclass have no swim bladders , five to seven pairs of gill clefts opening individually to the exterior, rigid dorsal fins , and small placoid scales. ... source: Wikipedia