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Squalus
Taxonomy
Squalus was named by Linnaeus (1758) [Sepkoski's age data: K Camp R Sepkoski's reference number: 884]. It is extant. Its type is Squalus acanthias. It is the type genus of Squalidae.
It was assigned to Squalinae by Bendix-Almgreen (1983); to Squaliformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Squalidae by Jordan and Hanibal (1923), Jordan (1963), Cassier (1966), Long (1992), Siverson (1993), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Underwood and Mitchell (1999), Purdy et al. (2001), Kocsis (2007), Adnet et al. (2008), Kent (2018), Cappetta et al. (2019), Hoganson et al. (2019), Villafaña et al. (2020), Cicimurri et al. (2022) and Feichtinger et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Squalinae by Bendix-Almgreen (1983); to Squaliformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Squalidae by Jordan and Hanibal (1923), Jordan (1963), Cassier (1966), Long (1992), Siverson (1993), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Underwood and Mitchell (1999), Purdy et al. (2001), Kocsis (2007), Adnet et al. (2008), Kent (2018), Cappetta et al. (2019), Hoganson et al. (2019), Villafaña et al. (2020), Cicimurri et al. (2022) and Feichtinger et al. (2024).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Squalus Linnaeus p. 233 |
| 1818 | Acanthias Leach |
| 1854 | Spinax (Acanthias) Girard |
| 1904 | Acanthias Chapman and Pritchard p. 269 |
| 1923 | Squalus Jordan and Hanibal p. 58 |
| 1924 | Acanthias Chapman and Cudmore p. 109 |
| 1926 | Acanthias Leriche p. 381 |
| 1963 | Acanthias Jordan p. 601 |
| 1963 | Squalus Jordan p. 601 |
| 1966 | Squalus Cassier p. 62 |
| 1983 | Squalus Bendix-Almgreen p. 2 |
| 1992 | Squalus Long p. 15 |
| 1993 | Squalus Cvancara and Hoganson p. 5 |
| 1993 | Squalus Siverson p. 4 |
| 1999 | Squalus Underwood and Mitchell |
| 2001 | Squalus Purdy et al. p. 87 |
| 2002 | Squalus Sepkoski |
| 2007 | Squalus Kocsis p. 29 |
| 2008 | Squalus Adnet et al. p. 713 |
| 2018 | Squalus Kent p. 59 |
| 2019 | Squalus Cappetta et al. p. 1146 |
| 2019 | Squalus Hoganson et al. p. 16 |
| 2020 | Squalus Villafaña et al. |
| 2022 | Squalus Cicimurri et al. |
| 2024 | Squalus Feichtinger et al. p. 4 |
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G. Squalus Linnaeus 1758
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Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758 [spiny dogfish]
†Squalus ballingsloevensis Siverson 1993
†Squalus balsvikensis Siverson 1993
†Squalus cinereus Gmelin 1789
†Squalus crenatidens Arambourg 1952
†Squalus gabrielsoni Siverson 1993
†Squalus latidens Davis 1887
†Squalus minor Daimeries 1888
†Squalus nicholsae Cappetta et al. 2019
†Squalus orpiensis Winkler 1874
Squalus perlo Bonnaterre 1788
†Squalus serriculus Jordan and Hanibal 1923
†Squalus stehlini Leriche 1938
†Squalus suckleyi Girard 1854
†Squalus vondermarcki Müller and Schöllmann 1989
†Squalus weltoni Long 1992
†Squalus woodburnei Long 1992
Invalid names: Acanthias Leach 1818 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available