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Physogaleus contortus

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdonidae

Taxonomy
Galeocerdo contortus was named by Gibbes (1847) [year is a guess].

It was recombined as Physodon contortus by Gervais (1872), Weiler (1938), Leder (2013); it was recombined as Physogaleus contortus by Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016), Landini et al. (2017), Maisch IV et al. (2018), Kent (2018), Everaert et al. (2019), Villafaña et al. (2020), Türtscher et al. (2021), Cicimurri et al. (2022), Maisch IV et al. (2025), Cicimurri et al. (2025), Marramà et al. (2026).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. aduncas, P. americanus, P. minor
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2006-07-28; modified by M. Uhen on 2020-05-02

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Galeocerdo contortus Gibbes p. 193
1856Galeocerdo productus Agassiz
1872Physodon contortus Gervais
1889Galeocerdo contortus Woodward p. 443
1894Galeocerdo acutus Storms
1895Galeocerdo contortus Clark p. 4
1902Galeocerdo contortus Hay p. 311
1902Galeocerdo productus Hay p. 312
1904Galeocerdo triqueter Eastman
1907Galeocerdo productus Jordan p. 101 figs. 4b and 4c
1919Galeocerdo productus Jordan and Gilbert p. 21
1938Physodon contortus Weiler p. 8
1942Physodon triqueter Leriche p. 79
1946Galeocerdo contortus Rapp p. 510
2001Galeocerdo contortus Purdy et al. p. 146
2007Galeocerdo contortus Kocsis p. 38
2013Physodon contortus Leder p. 21 figs. Pl 7, figs 1-21; text-figs 8.6-8.8
2016Physogaleus contortus Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 9 figs. 7.11-7.15
2017Physogaleus contortus Landini et al. p. 176 fig. 4A,B
2018Physogaleus contortus Kent p. 110
2018Physogaleus contortus Maisch IV et al. p. 366 fig. 5M,N
2019Physogaleus contortus Everaert et al. p. 91 figs. Pl 3, fig 3,6
2019Galeocerdo contortus Landini et al. p. 360
2020Physogaleus contortus Villafaña et al.
2021Physogaleus contortus Türtscher et al.
2022Physogaleus contortus Cicimurri et al.
2025Physogaleus contortus Cicimurri et al. p. 26
2025Physogaleus contortus Maisch IV et al. p. 24
2026Physogaleus contortus Marramà et al. p. 12

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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
familyGaleocerdonidaePoey 1875
genusPhysogaleus
speciescontortus()

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.

†Physogaleus contortus Gibbes 1847
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Invalid names: Galeocerdo acutus Storms 1894 [synonym], Galeocerdo productus Agassiz 1856 [synonym], Galeocerdo triqueter Eastman 1904 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available