Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Alternative combinations: Carcharias (Scoliodon) carcharias, Squalus carcharias
Synonyms: Carcharias sulcidens Agassiz 1835, Carcharodon caifassi Lawley 1876, Carcharodon etruscus Lawley 1881, Carcharodon rondeleti Muller and Henle 1841, Carcharodon rondeletii Muller and Henle 1841, Carcharodon sulcidens Agassiz 1835
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Carcharodon according to R. Rondelli 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2009, Agassiz 1835, Agassiz 1839, Agassiz 1843, Antunes 1978, Antunes and Balbino 2010, Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena 1996, Baldanza et al. 2025, Boessenecker 2011, Bor and Peters 2015, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2013, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cusumano and Di Patti 2010, Deméré and Cerutti 1982, Eastman 1904, Fitch 1968, Fitch 1970, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Jordan 1922, Kent 2018, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Mora Morote 1996, Purdy et al. 2001, Ralte et al. 2011, Uyeno and Matsushima 1975, Uyeno and Matsushima 1979, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Carcharodon (Procarcharodon), Carcharodon acutidens, Carcharodon arnoldi, Carcharodon branneri, Carcharodon contortidens, Carcharodon debrayi, Carcharodon hastalis, Carcharodon heterodon, Carcharodon hubbelli, Carcharodon humilis, Carcharodon lanceolatus, Carcharodon lanciformis, Carcharodon landanensis, Carcharodon leptodon, Carcharodon leviathan, Carcharodon megalotis, Carcharodon morricei, Carcharodon mortoni, Carcharodon nodai, Carcharodon orientalis, Carcharodon productus, Carcharodon purplei, Carcharodon semiserratus, Carcharodon stromeri, Carcharodon subauriculatus, Carcharodon subserratus, Carcharodon tembloris, Carcharodon toliapicus
Type specimens:
- Carcharodon carcharias: 1
- Carcharias sulcidens:
- Carcharodon caifassi:
- Carcharodon etruscus:
- Carcharodon rondeleti:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Chile (1), Italy (2), Japan (4), Taiwan (2), United States (11: Alabama, California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (5), Chile (4), Italy (5), Japan (3), Libya (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), United States (10: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Chile (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Angola (3), Australia (1), Chile (3), Cuba (1), India (5), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Peru (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), United States (4: California, Florida)
Total: 97 collections including 99 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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