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Notorhynchus primigenius

Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Hexanchidae

Taxonomy
Notidanus primigenius was named by Agassiz (1835).

It was recombined as Heptranchias primigenius by Hay (1902) and Fowler (1911); it was recombined as Notidanus (Notorhynchus) primigenius by Weiler (1938); it was recombined as Notidanion primigenium by Rapp (1946); it was synonymized subjectively with Notorynchus cepedianus by Purdy et al. (2001); it was recombined as Notorynchus primigenius by Kocsis (2007); it was recombined as Notorhynchus primigenius by Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Kent (2018) and Villafaña et al. (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
N. kempi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Notidanus primigenius Agassiz figs. Pl 27, figs 2-17
1839Notidanus primigenius Agassiz Duplicate figs. Pl 27, figs 2-17
1843Notidanus primigenius Agassiz figs. Pl Q, fig 6
1847Notidanus primigenius Gibbes p. 195
1868Notidanus primigenius Cope p. 141
1888Notidanus primigenius Davis p. 33
1889Notidanus primigenius Woodward p. 163
1902Heptranchias primigenius Hay p. 300
1904Notidanus primigenius Eastman p. 77
1911Heptranchias primigenius Fowler p. 24
1918Notidanus primigenius Chapman p. 5
1926Notidanus primigenius Leriche p. 388
1938Notidanus (Notorhynchus) primigenius Weiler p. 7
1942Notidanus primigenius Leriche p. 63
1946Notidanion primigenium Rapp p. 510
2007Notorynchus primigenius Kocsis p. 28
2015Notorhynchus primigenius Reinecke and Radwanski p. 7
2018Notorhynchus primigenius Kent p. 56
2020Notorhynchus primigenius Villafaña et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii()
—NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
orderSqualomorphiiCompagno 1973
orderHexanchiformesde Buen 1926
familyHexanchidaeGray 1851
genusNotorhynchusAyres 1855
speciesprimigenius()

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.

†Notorhynchus primigenius Agassiz 1835
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available