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Rhizoprionodon (sharpnose shark)
Taxonomy
Rhizoprionodon was named by Whitley (1929) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 884]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Rhizoprionodontini.
It was assigned to Rhizoprionodontini by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Sphyrnidae by Adnet et al. (2007); to Scyliorhinidae by Maisch et al. (2014); and to Carcharhinidae by Case (1981), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Tabuce et al. (2005), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Otero et al. (2013), Carillo-Briceño et al. (2014), Kent (2018), Ebersole et al. (2019), Adnet et al. (2020) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Rhizoprionodontini by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Sphyrnidae by Adnet et al. (2007); to Scyliorhinidae by Maisch et al. (2014); and to Carcharhinidae by Case (1981), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Tabuce et al. (2005), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Otero et al. (2013), Carillo-Briceño et al. (2014), Kent (2018), Ebersole et al. (2019), Adnet et al. (2020) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Rhizoprionodon Whitley |
| 1981 | Rhizoprionodon Case p. 65 |
| 1981 | Rhizoprionodon Thurmond and Jones p. 68 |
| 1997 | Rhizoprionodon Noubhani and Cappetta p. 87 |
| 2001 | Rhizoprionodon Purdy et al. p. 155 |
| 2002 | Rhizoprionodon Sepkoski |
| 2005 | Rhizoprionodon Compagno |
| 2005 | Rhizoprionodon Tabuce et al. p. 385 |
| 2007 | Rhizoprionodon Adnet et al. p. 314 |
| 2009 | Rhizoprionodon Cicimurri and Knight p. 634 |
| 2013 | Rhizoprionodon Otero et al. p. 23 figs. Fg. 6: 3-8 |
| 2014 | Rhizoprionodon Carillo-Briceño et al. p. 83 |
| 2014 | Rhizoprionodon Maisch et al. p. 193 |
| 2018 | Rhizoprionodon Kent p. 120 |
| 2019 | Rhizoprionodon Ebersole et al. p. 78 |
| 2020 | Rhizoprionodon Adnet et al. p. 12 |
| 2020 | Rhizoprionodon Villafaña et al. |
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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. Rhizoprionodon Whitley 1929 [sharpnose shark]
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†Rhizoprionodon ganntourensis Arambourg 1952
Rhizoprionodon lalandii Müller and Henle 1839
Rhizoprionodon longurio Jordan and Gilbert 1882
†Rhizoprionodon taxandriae Leriche 1926
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available