Sphyrna Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:46, 60 Fem. Squalus zygaena Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bonaparte 1838:10 (of separate, see also p. 2) [ref. 4979]; also designated by Jordan & Gilbert 1883:26 [ref. 2476]. •Valid as Sphyrna Rafinesque 1810 -- (Gilbert 1967:10 [ref. 21135], Gilbert 1973:32 [ref. 7164], Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984:123 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:541 [ref. 6846], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:7 [ref. 6441], Bass 1986:96 [ref. 5635], Cappetta 1987:127 [ref. 6348], Compagno 1988:362 [ref. 13488], Paxton et al. 1989:86 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:138 [ref. 22532], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:52 [ref. 24550], Compagno 1999:484 [ref. 25589], Compagno 2003:498 [ref. 26984], Compagno et al. 2005:45 [ref. 29145], Hoese et al. 2006:110 [ref. 29001], White 2008:73 [ref. 30617], Lim et al. 2010:575 [ref. 39445], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:9 [ref. 36649], Castro 2011:504 [ref. 31457], Moore et al. 2012:11 [ref. 31771], Weigmann 2012:2 [ref. 31968], Parin et al. 2014:24 [ref. 33547], Duffy 2015:108 [ref. 34217], Dyldin 2015:54 [ref. 34524], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:97 [ref. 34398], White et al. 2017:186 [ref. 35860], Dyldin & Orlov 2018:165 [ref. 35920], Ehemann et al. 2018:22 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:17 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:13 [ref. 36273], White & Ko'ou 2018:43 [ref. 35922], Brown et al. 2019:153 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:42 [ref. 36673], Ebert et al. 2021:68 [ref. 38234], Gonzalez et al. 2024:491 [ref. 41605]). Current status: Valid as Sphyrna Rafinesque 1810. Sphyrnidae.