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Alopiidae (thresher shark)
Taxonomy
Alopiidae was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is extant.
It was assigned to Lamnoidei by Jordan (1963); to Odontaspidoidea by Herman (1977); to Galeoidea by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Orectolobiformes by Purdy et al. (2001); and to Lamniformes by Antunes and Balbino (2003), Underwood (2006), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Nelson et al. (2016), Kent (2018) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Lamnoidei by Jordan (1963); to Odontaspidoidea by Herman (1977); to Galeoidea by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Orectolobiformes by Purdy et al. (2001); and to Lamniformes by Antunes and Balbino (2003), Underwood (2006), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Nelson et al. (2016), Kent (2018) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1838 | Alopiidae Bonaparte |
| 1963 | Alopiidae Jordan p. 599 |
| 1977 | Alopiidae Herman p. 166 |
| 1981 | Alopiidae Thurmond and Jones p. 58 |
| 2001 | Alopiidae Purdy et al. p. 107 |
| 2003 | Alopiidae Antunes and Balbino p. 143 |
| 2006 | Alopiidae Underwood p. 235 |
| 2009 | Alopiidae Cicimurri and Knight p. 630 |
| 2016 | Alopiidae Nelson et al. p. 65 |
| 2018 | Alopiidae Kent p. 97 |
| 2020 | Alopiidae Villafaña et al. p. 733 |
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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.
Fm. Alopiidae Bonaparte 1838 [thresher shark]
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G. Alopias Rafinesque 1810 [thresher shark]
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†Alopias acutidens Casier 1958
†Alopias exigua Probst 1879
†Alopias grandis Leriche 1942
†Alopias latidens alabamensis White 1956
Alopias macrourus Rafinesque 1810
†Alopias palatasi Kent 2018
†Alopias superciliosus Lowe 1840
†Alopias vulpinus Bonnaterre 1788
G. †Paranomotodon Herman 1975
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†Paranomotodon angustidens Reuss 1845
†Paranomotodon toddi Case and Cappetta 1997
G. †Vulpecula Valmont 1768
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available