Cetorhinus (subgenus of Squalus) Blainville [H. de] 1816:121 Masc. Squalus gunnerianus Blainville 1810 (= Squalus maximus Gunnerus 1765). Type by subsequent designation. Gill 1862:398 [ref. 1783] lists S. maximus Linn. [sic] as type (not an included species); designation dates to Jordan & Gilbert 1883:31 [ref. 2476] as gunneri = maximus. Spelled Ceterhinus and Ceteorhinus by Agassiz 1846:75 [ref. 64]. Cethorhinus is a misspelling. •Valid as Cetorhinus Blainville 1816 -- (Springer 1973:16 [ref. 7162], Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984:89 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:233 [ref. 6474], Bass 1986:101 [ref. 5635], Cappetta 1987:107 [ref. 6348], Paxton et al. 1989:66 [ref. 12442], Compagno 1990:367 [ref. 22349], Gomon et al. 1994:144 [ref. 22532], Compagno 1999:478 [ref. 25589], Compagno 2001:90 [ref. 26323], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:81 [ref. 25968], Compagno 2003:431 [ref. 26984], Compagno et al. 2005:17 [ref. 29145], Hoese & Gates 2006:74 [ref. 28997], White 2008:43 [ref. 30617], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:6 [ref. 36649], Castro 2011:249 [ref. 31457], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:115 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:18 [ref. 33547], Duffy 2015:69 [ref. 34217], Dyldin 2015:47 [ref. 34524], Pietsch & Orr 2015:13 [ref. 34694], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:75 [ref. 34398], Dyldin & Orlov 2018:163 [ref. 35920], Ehemann et al. 2018:21 [ref. 36194], Stone & Shimada 2019:633 [ref. 37195], Ebert et al. 2021:43 [ref. 38234]). Current status: Valid as Cetorhinus Blainville 1816. Cetorhinidae.