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Galeocerdo (tiger shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae

Taxonomy
Galeocerdo was named by Müller and Henle (1837) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 884]. It is extant. Its type is Galeocerdo tigrinus.

It was assigned to Squalidae by Gibbes (1847), Leidy (1873); to Galeorhininae by Hay (1902); to Galeorhinidae by Jordan and Gilbert (1919); to Carchariidae by Davis (1888), Woodward (1889), Chapman and Pritchard (1904), Jordan (1907), Chapman (1918), Chapman and Cudmore (1924); to Carcharidae by Ameghino (1901), Bohm (1926); to Lamnidae by Leriche (1942); to Eulamiidae by Rapp (1946); to Galeidae by Jordan (1963); to Isuridae by Deraniyagala (1969); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Carcharinidae by White (1926), Dartevelle and Casier (1943), Casier (1958), Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea (2003); to Carcharhinidae by Case (1981), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Bendix-Almgreen (1983), Kumar and Loyal (1987), Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Rana et al. (2006), Kocsis (2007), Maisch et al. (2014), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Hastings and Dooley (2017), Kent (2018), van der Laan (2019), Cantalice et al. (2019), Landini et al. (2019), Villafaña et al. (2020), Cantalice et al. (2025); to Galeocerdidae by Ebersole et al. (2019), Rana et al. (2021), Cicimurri et al. (2022), Verma (2024), Popov et al. (2025); to Galeocerdonidae by Ebersole et al. (2024), Maisch IV et al. (2025), Cicimurri et al. (2025); and to Galeocerdinae by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997), Landau et al. (2025).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Galeocerdo Müller and Henle
1842Galeus pygmaeus Münster
1842Galeus similis Münster
1842Galeus sublaevis Münster
1847Galeocerdo Gibbes p. 191
1858Galeocerdo subcrenatus Emmons
1873Galeocerdo Leidy p. 351
1873Galeocerdo aeltrensis Van Beneden
1888Galeocerdo Davis p. 7
1889Galeocerdo Woodward p. 443
1901Galeocerdo Ameghino p. 82
1902Galeocerdo Hay p. 311
1904Galeocerdo Chapman and Pritchard p. 273
1907Galeocerdo Jordan p. 101
1918Galeocerdo Chapman p. 7
1919Galeocerdo Jordan and Gilbert p. 21
1924Galeocerdo Chapman and Cudmore p. 116
1926Galeocerdo Bohm p. 78
1926Galeocerdo White p. 26
1942Galeocerdo Leriche p. 48
1943Galeocerdo Dartevelle and Casier p. 151
1946Galeocerdo Rapp p. 510
1958Galeocerdo Casier p. 70
1963Galeocerdo Jordan p. 599
1969Galeocerdo Deraniyagala p. 6
1981Galeocerdo Case p. 63
1981Galeocerdo Thurmond and Jones p. 62
1983Galeocerdo Bendix-Almgreen p. 2
1987Galeocerdo Kumar and Loyal p. 64
1997Galeocerdo Noubhani and Cappetta p. 85
2001Galeocerdo Purdy et al. p. 144
2002Galeocerdo Sepkoski
2003Galeocerdo Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea p. 124
2005Galeocerdo Compagno
2006Galeocerdo Rana et al. p. 515
2007Galeocerdo Kocsis p. 38
2014Galeocerdo Maisch et al. p. 191
2015Galeocerdo Reinecke and Radwanski p. 12
2017Galeocerdo Hastings and Dooley p. 83
2018Galeocerdo Kent p. 107
2019Galeocerdo Cantalice et al. p. 431
2019Galeocerdo Ebersole et al. p. 98
2019Galeocerdo Landini et al. p. 361
2019Galeocerdo van der Laan p. 43
2020Galeocerdo Villafaña et al.
2021Galeocerdo Rana et al. p. 9
2022Galeocerdo Cicimurri et al.
2024Galeocerdo Ebersole et al. p. 10
2024Galeocerdo Verma p. 1994
2025Galeocerdo Cantalice et al. p. 12
2025Galeocerdo Cicimurri et al. p. 45
2025Galeocerdo Landau et al. p. 20
2025Galeocerdo Maisch IV et al. p. 21
2025Galeocerdo Popov et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
infraclassElasmobranchii(Bonaparte 1838)
—Euselachii()
—NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderGaleomorphiiCompagno 1973
orderCarcharhiniformesCompagno 1973
familyCarcharhinidaeJordan and Evermann 1896
genusGaleocerdoMüller and Henle 1837

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Galeocerdo Müller and Henle 1837 [tiger shark]
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†Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835
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Invalid names: Galeocerdo davisi Chapman and Pritchard 1904 [synonym], Galeocerdo gajensis Tewari et al. 1960 [synonym]
†Galeocerdo capellini Lawley 1876
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Invalid names: Galeocerdo rosaliaensis Applegate 1978 [synonym]
†Galeocerdo clarkensis White 1956
Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 [tiger shark]
†Galeocerdo denticulatus Agassiz 1835
†Galeocerdo eaglesomei White 1955
†Galeocerdo egertoni Agassiz 1843
†Galeocerdo gibberulus Agassiz 1843
†Galeocerdo latidens Agassiz 1835
†Galeocerdo mayumbensis Dartevelle and Casier 1943
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Invalid names: Carcharodon bigelowi Mehortra et al. 1973 [synonym], Galeocerdo casei Müller 1999 [synonym], Galeocerdo paulinoi Santos and Travassos 1960 [synonym]
†Galeocerdo minor Agassiz 1835
†Galeocerdo mixtus Ameghino 1901
†Galeocerdo platycuspidatum Cicimurri et al. 2025
†Galeocerdo semilevis White 1926
Galeocerdo tigrinus Müller and Henle 1838
Invalid names: Galeocerdo aeltrensis Van Beneden 1873 [nomen nudum], Galeocerdo pygmaeus Münster 1842 [nomen nudum], Galeocerdo similis Münster 1842 [nomen nudum], Galeocerdo subcrenatus Emmons 1858 [nomen dubium], Galeocerdo sublaevis Münster 1842 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available