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Heterodontiformes (bullhead shark)
Taxonomy
Heterodontiformes was named by Berg (1940). It is extant.
It was reranked as the suborder Heterodontiformes by Casier (1966).
It was assigned to Euselachii by Casier (1966); to Selachii by Applegate (1970); to Chondrichthyes by Sepkoski (2002); to Galea by Underwood and Ward (2004); to Neoselachii by Kriwet (2008); to Galeomorphii by Biddle (1993), Kriwet et al. (2009); to Galeomorphii by Thies (1983), Delsate (2003), Cahuzac et al. (2007), Ebersole et al. (2019); to Galeomorphi by Long (2011), Nelson et al. (2016), van der Laan (2019); and to Selachimorpha by Maisch IV et al. (2025).
It was reranked as the suborder Heterodontiformes by Casier (1966).
It was assigned to Euselachii by Casier (1966); to Selachii by Applegate (1970); to Chondrichthyes by Sepkoski (2002); to Galea by Underwood and Ward (2004); to Neoselachii by Kriwet (2008); to Galeomorphii by Biddle (1993), Kriwet et al. (2009); to Galeomorphii by Thies (1983), Delsate (2003), Cahuzac et al. (2007), Ebersole et al. (2019); to Galeomorphi by Long (2011), Nelson et al. (2016), van der Laan (2019); and to Selachimorpha by Maisch IV et al. (2025).
Subtaxa
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by G. Lloyd on 2013-04-30
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Heterodontiformes Berg |
| 1966 | Heterodontiformes Casier p. 51 |
| 1970 | Heterodontiformes Applegate p. 393 |
| 1983 | Heterodontiformes Thies p. 28 |
| 1993 | Heterodontiformes Biddle p. 201 |
| 2002 | Heterodontiformes Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Heterodontiformes Delsate p. 8 |
| 2004 | Heterodontiformes Underwood and Ward p. 460 |
| 2007 | Heterodontiformes Cahuzac et al. p. 14 |
| 2008 | Heterodontiformes Kriwet p. 236 |
| 2009 | Heterodontiformes Kriwet et al. p. 320 |
| 2011 | Heterodontiformes Long p. 242 |
| 2016 | Heterodontiformes Nelson et al. p. 59 |
| 2019 | Heterodontiformes Ebersole et al. p. 15 |
| 2019 | Heterodontiformes van der Laan p. 41 |
| 2025 | Heterodontiformes Maisch IV et al. p. 10 |
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Or. Heterodontiformes Berg 1940 [bullhead shark]
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Fm. Heterodontidae Gray 1851
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G. †Acrodonchus Fraas 1889
G. †Centracion Gray 1831
G. †Centrodus Giebel 1848
G. †Chalazacanthus Davis 1883
G. †Drepanephorus Egerton 1872
G. †Echinodus Davis 1884
G. Heterodontus de Blainville 1816 [bullhead shark]
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†Heterodontus boussioni Guinot et al. 2013
†Heterodontus cainozoicus Pledge 1985
†Heterodontus canaliculatus Egerton and Woodward 1889
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Invalid names: Acrodus cretaceus Dixon 1850 [synonym]
†Heterodontus carerens Kriwet 1999
†Heterodontus creamridgensis Case et al. 2001
†Heterodontus duffini Thies 1983
Heterodontus francisci Girard 1855 [horn shark]
†Heterodontus granti Case and Cappetta 1997
†Heterodontus havreensis Herman 1977
†Heterodontus laevis Guinot et al. 2013
†Heterodontus lerichei Casier 1943
†Heterodontus lonzeensis Herman 1977
†Heterodontus maisierensis Herman 1977
†Heterodontus paucicarinatus Landemaine 1991
†Heterodontus pineti Fedorowski 1912
†Heterodontus polonicus Rees 2005
Heterodontus portujacksoni Meyer 1793 [Port Jackson shark]
†Heterodontus rugosus Agassiz 1839
†Heterodontus semirugosus Plieninger 1847
†Heterodontus sowasheense Case 1994
†Heterodontus sulcatus Woodward 1889
†Heterodontus upnikensis Dalinkevičius 1935
†Heterodontus vincenti Leriche 1905
†Heterodontus wardensis Casier 1966
Heterodontus woodwardi Casier 1946
Invalid names: Cestracion Cuvier 1817 [synonym], Gyropleurodus Gill 1862 [synonym], Heterodontobatis Landemaine 1991 [synonym], Tropidodus Gill 1862 [synonym]
G. †Hybodopsis Barkas 1878
G. †Paracestracion Koken in Zittel 1911
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†Paracestracion bellis Underwood and Ward 2004
†Paracestracion falcifer Wagner 1857
†Paracestracion pectinatus Guinot et al. 2014
†Paracestracion sarstedensis Thies 1983
†Paracestracion viohli Kriwet 2008
G. †Psilacanthus Quenstedt 1858
G. †Rhabdiodus
G. †Selachidea Quenstedt 1852
G. †Styracodus
Invalid names: Hybodontoidei Owen 1846 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available