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Carcharodon carcharias (great white shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae

Taxonomy

Squalus carcharias was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type specimen is 1.

It was recombined as Carcharias (Scoliodon) carcharias by Eastman (1904); it was recombined as Carcharodon carcharias by Hay (1902), Jordan (1922), Chapman and Cudmore (1924), Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena (1996), Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Purdy et al. (2001), Adnet et al. (2009), Boessenecker (2011), Kent (2018).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. praemegalodon

Synonyms

Carcharodon rondeleti was named by Muller and Henle (1841).

It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon carcharias by Adnet et al. (2009).
Carcharias sulcidens was named by Agassiz (1835).

It was recombined as Carcharodon sulcidens by Agassiz (1843), Gibbes (1847); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon carcharias by Adnet et al. (2009).
Carcharias productus was named by Agassiz (1838).

It was recombined as Carcharodon productus by Agassiz (1843), Agassiz (1843); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon megalodon by Chapman and Cudmore (1924); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon carcharias by Adnet et al. (2009).
Carcharodon caifassi was named by Lawley (1876). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon carcharias by Adnet et al. (2009).
Carcharodon etruscus was named by Lawley (1881). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon carcharias by Adnet et al. (2009).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Squalus carcharias Linnaeus
1835	Carcharias sulcidens Agassiz p. 33
1838	Carcharias productus Agassiz figs. Pl 30, figs 2-8
1839	Carcharias sulcidens Agassiz figs. Pl 30a, figs 3-7
1841	Carcharodon rondeleti Muller and Henle
1843	Carcharodon productus Agassiz figs. Pl Q, figs 1,2
1843	Carcharodon sulcidens Agassiz p. 254
1847	Carcharodon sulcidens Gibbes p. 147
1876	Carcharodon caifassi Lawley p. 23
1881	Carcharodon etruscus Lawley p. 17
1889	Carcharodon rondeleti Woodward p. 420
1902	Carcharodon carcharias Hay p. 307
1904	Carcharias (Scoliodon) carcharias Eastman p. 25
1918	Carcharodon rondeletii Chapman p. 20
1922	Carcharodon carcharias Jordan p. 340
1924	Carcharodon carcharias Chapman and Cudmore p. 135
1926	Carcharodon rondeleti Leriche p. 422
1942	Carcharodon rondeleti Leriche p. 77
1996	Carcharodon carcharias Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena p. 32
1998	Carcharodon carcharias Yabe and Hirayama p. 41
2001	Carcharodon carcharias Purdy et al. p. 137
2009	Carcharodon carcharias Adnet et al. p. 10
2011	Carcharodon carcharias Boessenecker p. 12 figs. 3.7, 3.8, 3.12-3.22, 4.1-4.10
2018	Carcharodon carcharias Kent p. 76

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Chondrichthyes

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii	()
—	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Galeomorphii	Compagno 1973
order	Lamniformes	Berg 1958
family	Lamnidae	Müller and Henle 1838
genus	Carcharodon	Smith 1838
species	carcharias	()

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 carcharias Linnaeus 1758 [great white shark]

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Invalid names: Carcharias productus Agassiz 1838 [synonym], Carcharias sulcidens Agassiz 1835 [synonym], Carcharodon caifassi Lawley 1876 [synonym], Carcharodon etruscus Lawley 1881 [synonym], Carcharodon rondeleti Muller and Henle 1841 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available