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Cetorhinidae (basking shark)
Taxonomy
Cetorhinidae was named by Gill (1862). It is extant.
It was assigned to Lamnoidei by Jordan (1963); to Squatinida by Kalabis and Schultz (1974), Schultz (1978); to Orectolobiformes by Purdy et al. (2001); and to Lamniformes by Bendix-Almgreen (1983), Cione and Reguero (1998), Duffin (1998), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Welton (2013), Nelson et al. (2016), Přikryl et al. (2016), Kent (2018).
It was assigned to Lamnoidei by Jordan (1963); to Squatinida by Kalabis and Schultz (1974), Schultz (1978); to Orectolobiformes by Purdy et al. (2001); and to Lamniformes by Bendix-Almgreen (1983), Cione and Reguero (1998), Duffin (1998), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Welton (2013), Nelson et al. (2016), Přikryl et al. (2016), Kent (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1862 | Cetorhinidae Gill |
| 1963 | Cetorhinidae Jordan p. 599 |
| 1974 | Cetorhinidae Kalabis and Schultz p. 185 |
| 1978 | Cetorhinidae Schultz p. 204 |
| 1983 | Cetorhinidae Bendix-Almgreen p. 2 |
| 1998 | Cetorhinidae Cione and Reguero p. 84 |
| 1998 | Cetorhinidae Duffin p. 160 |
| 2001 | Cetorhinidae Purdy et al. p. 109 |
| 2009 | Cetorhinidae Cicimurri and Knight p. 630 |
| 2013 | Cetorhinidae Welton p. 3 |
| 2016 | Cetorhinidae Nelson et al. p. 67 |
| 2016 | Cetorhinidae Přikryl et al. |
| 2018 | Cetorhinidae Kent p. 102 |
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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. Cetorhinidae Gill 1862 [basking shark]
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G. †Caucasochasma Prokoviev and Sychevskaya 2018
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†Caucasochasma zherikhini Prokoviev and Sychevskaya 2018
G. Cetorhinus de Blainville 1816
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†Cetorhinus duponti Hasse 1882
†Cetorhinus huddlestoni Welton 2014
Cetorhinus maximus Gunner 1765
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Invalid names: Hannovera aurata Van Beneden 1871 [synonym], Selache duponti Hasse 1882 [synonym]
†Cetorhinus piersoni Welton 2015
Invalid names: Hannovera Van Beneden 1871 [synonym], Polyprosopus Couch 1863 [synonym], Selache Cuvier 1817 [synonym], Tetroras Rafinesque 1810 [synonym]
G. †Keasius Welton 2013
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†Keasius parvus Leriche 1908
†Keasius rhenanus Reinecke and Radwanski 2015
†Keasius septemtrionalis Reinecke and Radwanski 2015
†Keasius taylori Welton 2013
Invalid names: Praecetorhinus Hocht 1978 [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available