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Carcharodon auriculatus

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae

Taxonomy
Squalus auriculatus was named by Blainville (1818).

It was recombined as Carcharias auriculatus by Agassiz (1835) and Agassiz Duplicate (1839); it was recombined as Procarcharodon auriculatus by Case (1981); it was recombined as Carcharocles auriculatus by Long (1992) and Otero et al. (2013); it was recombined as Otodus auriculatus by Trif et al. (2016); it was recombined as Carcharodon auriculatus by Agassiz (1843), Woodward (1889), Hay (1902), Chapman and Pritchard (1904), Chapman (1918), Chapman and Cudmore (1924), Leriche (1926), Rapp (1946), Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena (1996), Maisch et al. (2014) and Cantalice et al. (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1818Squalus auriculatus Blainville
1835Carcharias auriculatus Agassiz figs. Pl 28, figs 17-19
1839Carcharias auriculatus Agassiz Duplicate figs. Pl 28, figs 17-19
1843Carcharodon auriculatus Agassiz p. 254
1888Carcharodon robustus Davis p. 13 figs. Plate I, Fig. 7
1889Carcharodon auriculatus Woodward p. 411
1894Carcharodon robustus Hector p. 116
1902Carcharodon auriculatus Hay p. 307
1904Carcharodon auriculatus Chapman and Pritchard p. 283
1904Carcharodon robustus Chapman and Pritchard p. 2845
1918Carcharodon auriculatus Chapman p. 18
1924Carcharodon auriculatus Chapman and Cudmore p. 134
1926Carcharodon auriculatus Leriche p. 463
1946Carcharodon auriculatus Rapp p. 510
1981Procarcharodon auriculatus Case p. 56
1992Carcharocles auriculatus Long p. 28
1996Carcharodon auriculatus Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena p. 28
2013Carcharocles auriculatus Otero et al. p. 19 figs. 4.3-4.8
2014Carcharodon auriculatus Maisch et al. p. 188
2016Otodus auriculatus Trif et al. p. 509
2019Carcharodon auriculatus Cantalice et al. p. 431

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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
familyLamnidaeMüller and Henle 1838
genusCarcharodonSmith 1838
speciesauriculatus(Blainville 1818)

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.

Carcharodon auriculatus Blainville 1818
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Invalid names: Carcharodon robustus Davis 1888 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available