Order: Hexanchiformes (cow sharks)

Chlamydoselachidae (frilled sharks)

Only one species recorded in southern Africa: Chlamydoselachus sp. nov (Southern African frilled shark)

Family: Hexanchidae (cow sharks)

Order: Squaliformes

Echinorhinidae (bramble sharks)

Only one species recorded in southern Africa : Echinorhinus brucus (Bramble shark)

Squalidae (dogfish sharks)

Centrophoridae (gulper sharks)

Etmopteridae (lantern sharks)

Somniosidae (sleeper sharks)

Oxynotidae (roughsharks)

Only one species recorded in southern Africa : Oxynotus centrina (Flatiron shark)

Dalatiidae (kitefin sharks)