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Galeorhinus (school shark)
Taxonomy
Galeorhinus was named by de Blainville and Prévost (1816). It is extant. It is the type genus of Galeorhinidae, Galeorhinini.
It was synonymized subjectively with Galeus by Jordan (1907).
It was assigned to Galeorhininae by Hay (1902); to Galeorhinidae by Jordan and Gilbert (1919), Jordan and Gilbert (1919); to Galeidae by Jordan (1963); to Carcharhinidae by Casier (1958), Casier (1966), Case (1981), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Kumar and Loyal (1987); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Triakidae by Long and Stilwell (2000), Purdy et al. (2001), Rana et al. (2006), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Marramà et al. (2018), Marramà et al. (2018), Hoganson et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2024), Maisch IV et al. (2025), Cicimurri et al. (2025); and to Galeorhinini by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997), Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Adnet and Cappetta (2008), Popov et al. (2025).
It was synonymized subjectively with Galeus by Jordan (1907).
It was assigned to Galeorhininae by Hay (1902); to Galeorhinidae by Jordan and Gilbert (1919), Jordan and Gilbert (1919); to Galeidae by Jordan (1963); to Carcharhinidae by Casier (1958), Casier (1966), Case (1981), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Kumar and Loyal (1987); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Triakidae by Long and Stilwell (2000), Purdy et al. (2001), Rana et al. (2006), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Marramà et al. (2018), Marramà et al. (2018), Hoganson et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2024), Maisch IV et al. (2025), Cicimurri et al. (2025); and to Galeorhinini by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997), Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Adnet and Cappetta (2008), Popov et al. (2025).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1816 | Galeorhinus de Blainville and Prévost p. 248 |
| 1864 | Eugaleus Gill |
| 1902 | Galeorhinus Hay p. 312 |
| 1919 | Galeorhinus Jordan and Gilbert p. 21 |
| 1926 | Eugaleus White p. 26 |
| 1938 | Eugaleus Weiler p. 8 |
| 1946 | Eugaleus Casier p. 83 |
| 1958 | Galeorhinus Casier p. 20 |
| 1963 | Eugaleus Jordan p. 599 |
| 1963 | Galeorhinus Jordan p. 599 |
| 1966 | Galeorhinus Casier p. 86 |
| 1981 | Galeorhinus Case p. 65 |
| 1981 | Galeorhinus Thurmond and Jones p. 67 |
| 1987 | Galeorhinus Kumar and Loyal p. 66 |
| 1993 | Galeorhinus microdon Aver'yanov and Udovichenko p. 366 |
| 1993 | Galeorhinus tenuis Aver'yanov and Udovichenko p. 366 |
| 1997 | Galeorhinus Noubhani and Cappetta p. 79 |
| 1998 | Galeorhinus Yabe and Hirayama p. 47 |
| 2000 | Galeorhinus Long and Stilwell p. 350 |
| 2001 | Galeorhinus Purdy et al. p. 139 |
| 2002 | Geleorhinus Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Galeorhinus Rana et al. p. 512 |
| 2008 | Galeorhinus Adnet and Cappetta p. 448 |
| 2009 | Galeorhinus Cicimurri and Knight p. 635 |
| 2015 | Galeorhinus Reinecke and Radwanski p. 11 |
| 2018 | Galeorhinus Marramà et al. p. 287 |
| 2018 | Galeorhinus Marramà et al. p. 287 |
| 2019 | Galeorhinus Ebersole et al. p. 61 |
| 2019 | Galeorhinus Hoganson et al. p. 30 |
| 2024 | Galeorhinus Ebersole et al. p. 7 |
| 2025 | Galeorhinus Cicimurri et al. p. 34 |
| 2025 | Galeorhinus Maisch IV et al. p. 20 |
| 2025 | Galeorhinus Popov et al. |
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G. Galeorhinus de Blainville and Prévost 1816 [school shark]
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†Galeorhinus cuvieri Agassiz 1835
†Galeorhinus duchaussoisi Adnet and Cappetta 2008
†Galeorhinus falconeri White 1956
Galeorhinus galeus Linnaeus 1758 [tope shark]
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Invalid names: Galeorhinus zyopterus Jordan and Gilbert 1883 [synonym]
†Galeorhinus girardoti Herman 1977
†Galeorhinus goncalvesi Antunes et al. 1999
†Galeorhinus hannibali Jordan and Beal 1910
†Galeorhinus huberensis Case 1981
†Galeorhinus loangoensis Dartevelle and Casier 1943
†Galeorhinus louisi Adnet and Cappetta 2008
†Galeorhinus mesetaensis Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
†Galeorhinus minor Agassiz 1835
†Galeorhinus minutissimus Arambourg 1935
†Galeorhinus parvulus Dartevelle and Casier 1943
†Galeorhinus ypresiensis Casier 1946
Invalid names: Eugaleus Gill 1864 [synonym], Galeorhinus microdon Aver'yanov and Udovichenko 1993 [nomen nudum], Galeorhinus tenuis Aver'yanov and Udovichenko 1993 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available