Kingdom Animalia -- Animal, animals, animaux
Phylum Chordata -- chordates, cordado, cordés
Subphylum Vertebrata -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés
Class Chondrichthyes -- cartilaginous fishes, condrictes, peixe cartilaginoso, poissons cartilagineux, raies, rays, requins, sharks, tubarão
Subclass Elasmobranchii -- rays, sharks, skates, torpedoes
Superorder Euselachii
Order Carcharhiniformes -- ground sharks
Family Carcharhinidae Jordan and Evermann, 1896 -- requiem sharks
Genus Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816 -- gray sharks
Species Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller, 1905) -- Galapagos shark