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Squalicorax pristodontus (crow shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae

Taxonomy
Galeus pristodontus was named by Agassiz (1835).

It was recombined as Corax pristodontus by Agassiz (1843), Woodward (1889), Hay (1902), Maury (1930) and Rapp (1946); it was recombined as Galeocerdo pristiodontus by Gibbes (1847); it was recombined as Anacorax pristodontus by Casier (1958); it was recombined as Squalicorax pristiodontus by Thurmond and Jones (1981); it was recombined as Squalicorax pristodontus by Whitley (1939), Miller (1967), Applegate (1970), Cappetta and Case (1975), Herman (1977), Case (1979), Siverson (1997), Cappetta and Corral (1999), Jagt et al. (2006), Shimada and Cicimurri (2006), Bogan and Agnolin (2010), Corral et al. (2016), Hoganson et al. (2019) and Salama et al. (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Galeus pristodontus Agassiz figs. Pl 26, figs 4-14
1839Galeus pristodontus Agassiz Duplicate figs. Pl 26, figs 4-14
1843Galeus pristodontus Agassiz figs. Pl P, fig 7
1843Corax pristodontus Agassiz p. 224
1847Galeocerdo pristiodontus Gibbes p. 192
1889Corax pristodontus Woodward p. 423
1902Corax pristodontus Hay p. 309
1930Corax pristodontus Maury p. 82
1939Squalicorax pristodontus Whitley
1946Corax pristodontus Rapp p. 510
1958Anacorax pristodontus Casier p. 55
1967Squalicorax pristodontus Miller p. 224
1970Squalicorax pristodontus Applegate p. 395
1975Squalicorax pristodontus Cappetta and Case p. 8 figs. Pl 7, figs 30-41
1977Squalicorax pristodontus Herman p. 110
1979Squalicorax pristodontus Case p. 79
1981Squalicorax pristiodontus Thurmond and Jones p. 57
1997Squalicorax pristodontus Siverson p. 461
1999Squalicorax pristodontus Cappetta and Corral p. 345 figs. Pl 1, fig 1
2006Squalicorax pristodontus Jagt et al. p. 55 fig. 5A,B
2006Squalicorax pristodontus Shimada and Cicimurri p. 177 fig. 1
2010Squalicorax pristodontus Bogan and Agnolin
2016Squalicorax pristodontus Corral et al. p. 645 figs. 5A-I
2019Squalicorax pristodontus Hoganson et al. p. 28 figs. 8.15, 8.16
2021Squalicorax pristodontus Salama et al. p. 3058 figs. 3a,e, 4a

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii()
NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderGaleomorphiiCompagno 1973
orderLamniformesBerg 1958
familyAnacoracidaeCasier 1947
genusSqualicoraxWhitley 1939
speciespristodontus()

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.

Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 [crow shark]
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Diagnosis
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