Subfamily Dalatiinae Gray 1851 (dogfish shark)
Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Squalidae
Parent taxon: Squalidae according to H. Yabe and R. Hirayama 1998
See also Keyes 1984 and Laurito 1996
Sister taxa: Acanthidium, Acanthorhinus, Atractophorus, Centrophoroides, Centroscyllium, Centrosqualus, Entoxychirus, Lepidorhinus, Machephilus, Megasqualus, Microetmopterus, Nasisqualus, Paracentroscyllium, Protocentrophorus, Protosqualus, Scymnodon, Spinax, Squalinae, Squalus, Zameus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Dalatiinae in the database