Lamna (Odontaspis) acutissima was named by Agassiz (1843). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Lamna acutissima by Agassiz (1843) and Lawley (1876); it was recombined as Odontaspis acutissima by Leriche (1926), Weiler (1938), Leriche (1942), Cappetta (1973), Ciobanu (1977), Case (1981), Purdy et al. (2001); it was recombined as Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) acutissima by Dartevelle and Casier (1943), Heinrich (1969), Bengevoord (1973), Marsili et al. (2007); it was recombined as Synodontaspis acutissima by Cappetta (1987), Nolf (1988), Mora Morote (1996), Baut and Génault (1999); it was recombined as Eugomphodus acutissima by Karasawa (1989), Perea and Ubilla (1989); it was recombined as Carcharias acutissima by Dutheil (1991), Antunes and Balbino (2003), Tanaka et al. (2006), Marsili (2007), Kocsis (2007), Brisswalter (2009), Vialle et al. (2011), Ávila et al. (2012), Betancort et al. (2016), Szabo et al. (2017); it was recombined as Carcharias acutissimus by Gille et al. (2010), Pollerspöck and Beaury (2014), Pollerspöck and Straube (2017), Hovestadt (2020), Villafaña et al. (2020).