Alopias Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:12 Masc. Alopias macrourus Rafinesque 1810. Type by monotypy. Misspellings include Alopius and Alopes. •Valid as Alopias Rafinesque 1810 -- (Springer 1973:17 [ref. 7162], Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984:91 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:229 [ref. 6474], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:7 [ref. 6441], Bass 1986:101 [ref. 5635], Cappetta 1987:105 [ref. 6348], Paxton et al. 1989:69 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:145 [ref. 22532], Eitner 1995:562 [ref. 22404], Compagno 1999:477 [ref. 25589], Compagno 2001:80 [ref. 26323], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:79 [ref. 25968], Compagno 2003:428 [ref. 26984], Compagno et al. 2005:16 [ref. 29145], Hoese & Gates 2006:73 [ref. 28997], White 2008:38 [ref. 30617], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:7 [ref. 36649], Castro 2011:231 [ref. 31457], Parin et al. 2014:18 [ref. 33547], Duffy & Stewart 2015:66 [ref. 34216], Dyldin 2015:47 [ref. 34524], Pietsch & Orr 2015:13 [ref. 34694], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:73 [ref. 34398], White et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35860], Dyldin & Orlov 2018:164 [ref. 35920], Ehemann et al. 2018:20 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:9 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:8 [ref. 36273], White & Ko'ou 2018:23 [ref. 35922], Brown et al. 2019:152 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:38 [ref. 36673], Stone & Shimada 2019:633 [ref. 37195], Ebert et al. 2021:42 [ref. 38234]). Current status: Valid as Alopias Rafinesque 1810. Alopiidae.