A Classification of the Recent Elasmobranchii

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Order LAMNIFORMES
Family ODONTASPIDAE
Genus ODONTASPIS Agassiz 1838
Odontaspis AGASSIZ 1835 (1838), type Carcharias ferox RISSO 1826 = Squalus ferox RISSO 1810
Triglochis MUELLER & HENLE 1837, type Squalus ferox RISSO 1810
Oxytes GIEBEL 1848, type Oxytes obliqua GIEBEL 1848 (fossil)
ICZN Opinion no. 1459 repealed opinion 733,which had reinstated Carcharias RAF 1810
(suppressed 1965) as valid and having priority over Odontaspis AGASSIZ 1838, where the two are
considered synonymous.
O. FEROX (Risso)1810 Bumpy-tailed Sandtiger; Smalltooth Sandtiger
Squalus ferox RISSO 1810 t/l;Nice, France.
Odontaspis herbsti WHITLEY 1950 t/l; Gabo I.,N.S.W.,Australia
Range; Med. & adj. Atlantic;Australia;N.Z.;Hawaii; S.California;Gulf of California.; Natal; S.Japan;
N.Madagascar.
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O. NORONHAI (Maul) 1955 Bigeye Sandtiger
Carcharias noronhai MAUL 1955 t/l; Camara de Lobos,Madeira.
Range;Madeira deep water. S. Brazil. North of Madagascar.
Genus EUGOMPHODUS Gill 1862
Carcharias RAFINESQUE 1810, type Carcharias taurus RAF. 1810
Eugomphodus GILL 1862, type Eugomphodus griseus GILL 1862 = Carcharias griseus STORER
1846 = Squalus littoralis MITCHILL ( = Carcharias taurus RAFINESQUE. )
Synodontaspis WHITE 1931, type Carcharias taurus RAF. 1810
Parodontaspis WHITE 1931, type Odontaspis platensis LAHILLE 1928
E. TAURUS (Rafinesque) 1810 Ragged-tooth Sandtiger; Grey Nurse (Aus.); Spotted
Ragged-tooth; Spotted Sandtiger
Carcharias taurus RAF. 1810 t/l; Sicily
Squalus americanus MITCHILL 1815 t/l; New York.
Squalus littoralis LeSUEUR 1817 t/l; New York.
Squalus macrodus MITCHILL 1817 t/l; New York.
Carcharias griseus AYRES 1842 t/l; Long Island
? Odontaspis cinerea RAMSAY & MACLEAY 1880 (n.nud.) t/l; Pt. Jackson,Australia.
Lamna ecarinata HILGENDORF in HEMPRICH & EHRENBERG 1899 t/l; Alexandria, Egypt.
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