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Negaprion (lemon shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae

Taxonomy
Negaprion was named by Whitley (1940) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m R Sepkoski's reference number: 884]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Carcharhinidae by Case (1981), Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Adnet et al. (2007), Carillo-Briceño et al. (2014), Hastings and Dooley (2017), Kent (2018), Ebersole et al. (2019), Landini et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2024).