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Sphyrnidae (hammerhead shark)
Taxonomy
Sphyrnidae was named by Gill (1872). It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Sphyrninae by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Galeidae by Hay (1902); to Galeoidei by Jordan (1963); to Isuroidei by Case (1981); and to Carcharhiniformes by Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Adnet et al. (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Nelson et al. (2016), Kent (2018) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
It was reranked as the subfamily Sphyrninae by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Galeidae by Hay (1902); to Galeoidei by Jordan (1963); to Isuroidei by Case (1981); and to Carcharhiniformes by Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Adnet et al. (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Nelson et al. (2016), Kent (2018) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1872 | Sphyrnidae Gill |
1902 | Sphyrninae Hay p. 314 |
1963 | Sphyrnidae Jordan p. 600 |
1981 | Sphyrnidae Case p. 66 |
2001 | Sphyrnidae Purdy et al. p. 157 |
2005 | Sphyrnidae Compagno |
2007 | Sphyrnidae Adnet et al. p. 314 |
2009 | Sphyrnidae Cicimurri and Knight p. 635 |
2016 | Sphyrnidae Nelson et al. p. 72 |
2018 | Sphyrnidae Kent p. 121 |
2020 | Sphyrnidae Villafaña et al. p. 739 |
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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.
Fm. Sphyrnidae Gill 1872 [hammerhead shark]
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G. †Cestrorhinus Blainville 1816
G. Eusphyra Giill 1862
G. †Platysqualus Swainson 1839
G. †Reniceps Gill 1861
G. †Sphyra Van der Hoeven 1849
G. †Sphyrichthys Thienemann 1828
G. Sphyrna Rafinesque 1810 [hammerhead shark]
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†Sphyrna americana Leriche 1942
†Sphyrna denticulata Agassiz 1843
†Sphyrna gibbesii Hay 1902
†Sphyrna gilmorei Leriche 1942
†Sphyrna guinoti Adnet et al. 2020
†Sphyrna itoriensis White 1926
†Sphyrna laevissima Cope 1867
†Sphyrna lata Agassiz 1843
†Sphyrna lewini Griffith and Smith 1834
†Sphyrna magna Cope 1868
†Sphyrna media Springer 1940
†Sphyrna subserrata Münster 1846
†Sphyrna tortilis White 1926
Sphyrna zygaena Linnaeus 1758
G. †Sphyrnias Rafinesque 1815
G. †Zygaena Cuvier 1816
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available