Oxynotus Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:45, 60 Masc. Squalus centrina Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Oxynotus Rafinesque 1810 -- (Krefft & Tortonese 1973:35 [ref. 7165], Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1984:126 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:124 [ref. 6474], Yano & Murofushi 1985 [ref. 5797], Bass et al. 1986:59 [ref. 5636], Cappetta 1987:59 [ref. 6348], Paxton et al. 1989:36 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:111 [ref. 22532], Compagno 1999:474 [ref. 25589], Yano & Matsuura 2002:109 [ref. 26346], Yano et al. 2002:363 [ref. 26798], Compagno 2003:408 [ref. 26984], Azevedo et al. 2003:117 [ref. 27250], Hoese & Gates 2006:147 [ref. 28997], White 2008:94 [ref. 30617], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:10 [ref. 36649], Castro 2011:137 [ref. 31457], Last et al. 2015:167 [ref. 34230], Bañón et al. 2016:299 [ref. 34397], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:63 [ref. 34398], Ho & Nakaya 2017:357 [ref. 35039], Ehemann et al. 2018:23 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:21 [ref. 35805], Ebert et al. 2021:33 [ref. 38234]). Current status: Valid as Oxynotus Rafinesque 1810. Oxynotidae.