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Dalatias

Chondrichthyes - Dalatiidae

Taxonomy
Dalatias was named by Rafinesque (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-u R Sepkoski's reference number: 453]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Squalidae by Jordan (1963) and Long (1992); to Dalatiinae by Keyes (1984) and Yabe and Hirayama (1998); to Squaliformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Dalatiidae by Jordan (1907), Sykes (1971) and Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1810Dalatias Rafinesque
1907Dalatias Jordan p. 118
1963Dalatias Jordan p. 601
1971Dalatias Sykes p. 13
1984Dalatias Keyes p. 209
1992Dalatias Long p. 19
1998Dalatias Yabe and Hirayama p. 38
2002Dalatias Sepkoski
2016Dalatias Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 83

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
RankNameAuthor
infraclassEuselachii()
NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
Selachii
superorderSqualimorphi
SqualidaNelson et al. 2016
Squaliformes(Goodrich 1909)
familyDalatiidaeGray 1851
genusDalatiasRafinesque 1810

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.

G. Dalatias Rafinesque 1810
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Dalatias licha Bonnaterre 1788
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available