Mitsukurina Jordan [D. S.] 1898:199 Fem. Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan 1898. Type by monotypy. Sometimes the species is placed in the fossil genus Scapanorhynchus Woodward 1889. •Valid as Mitsukurina Jordan 1898 -- (Springer 1973:12 [ref. 7162], Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984:82 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:222 [ref. 6474], Nakaya & Shirai in Masuda et al. 1984:7 [ref. 6441], Bass & Compagno 1986:103 [ref. 5637], Cappetta 1987:92 [ref. 6348], Paxton et al. 1989:65 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:146 [ref. 22532], Compagno 1999:477 [ref. 25589], Compagno 2001:69 [ref. 26323], Compagno 2003:425 [ref. 26984], Hoese & Gates 2006:67 [ref. 28997], White 2008:36 [ref. 30617], Castro 2011:202 [ref. 31457], Duffy & Stewart 2015:61 [ref. 34216], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:140 [ref. 34398], Stone & Shimada 2019:633 [ref. 37195], Ebert et al. 2021:39 [ref. 38234]). Current status: Valid as Mitsukurina Jordan 1898. Mitsukurinidae.