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Genera in the family or subfamily Squalidae: [ 12 ] records

Acanthias Risso [A.] 1827:131 Masc. Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758. Type by being a replacement name. Apparently an unneeded replacement for Squalus Linnaeus; A. vulgaris Risso is an unneeded substitute for the species S. acanthias Linnaeus. •Objective synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Krefft & Tortonese 1973:37 [ref. 7165], Compagno 1984:109 [ref. 6474], Viana et al. 2016:8 [ref. 34525]). Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Acanthias Bonaparte [C. L.] 1838:206 Masc. Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758. Type by absolute tautonymy of included junior synonym. Also appeared in Bonaparte 1846:15 [ref. 519]. Same as Acanthias Risso, but Risso not cited by Bonaparte. •Objective synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Acanthias Leach [W. E.] 1818:62 Masc. Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758. Brief description; one unavailable species antiquorum mentioned on p. 64. Addition of available species not researched. Type as given by Compagno. •Objective synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758 -- (see Compagno 1984:109 [ref. 6474]). Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Acanthias Müller [J.] & Henle [F. G. J.] (ex Bonaparte) 1839:83 Masc. Acanthias vulgaris Risso 1827. Type by absolute tautonymy of included junior synonym. Same as Acanthias Risso, but Risso not cited by Bonaparte or Müller & Henle. See also Acanthias Bonaparte 1846. Based on manuscript by C.L. Bonaparte. •Objective synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Acanthorhinus (subgenus of Squalus) Blainville [H. de] 1816:121 Masc. Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bory de Saint-Vincent, v. 1, 1822:41 [ref. 3853] (see Whitley 1935:137 [ref. 6396]). •Objective synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Krefft & Tortonese 1973:37 [ref. 7165], Compagno 1984:109 [ref. 6474], Viana et al. 2016:8 [ref. 34525]). Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Carcharias Gistel [J.] 1848:VIII, 103 Masc. Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758. Type by being a replacement name. Unneeded replacement for Acanthias [Risso] with species vulgaris, not preoccupied by Acanthia of early authors; Carcharias Gistel itself preoccupied by Rafinesque 1810 in fishes. •Objective synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Compagno 1984:109 [ref. 6474]). Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Cirrhigaleus Tanaka [S.] 1912:151 Masc. Cirrhigaleus barbifer Tanaka 1912. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Valid as Cirrhigaleus Tanaka 1912 -- (Compagno 1984:61 [ref. 6474], Paxton et al. 1989:33 [ref. 12442] as Cirrigaleus, Compagno 1999:472 [ref. 25589], Compagno 2003:380 [ref. 26984], Hoese 2006:154 [ref. 28998], White et al. 2007:19 [ref. 29244], Ebert et al. 2010:22 [ref. 30955], Castro 2011:51 [ref. 31457], Duffy & Last 2015:127 [ref. 34221], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:58 [ref. 34398], Ehemann et al. 2018:24 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:18 [ref. 35805], Ebert et al. 2021:20 [ref. 38234], Viana & Soares 2023:27 [ref. 40450]). Current status: Valid as Cirrhigaleus Tanaka 1912. Squalidae.

Flakeus (subgenus of Squalus) Whitley [G. P.] 1939:242 Masc. Acanthias megalops Macleay 1881. Type by original designation. •Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Compagno 1984:109 [ref. 6474]). Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Galeus Walbaum [J. J.] (ex Klein) 1792:579 Masc. Not available, published in a part of work rejected for nomenclatural purposes in Opinion 21 (1938). Based on Klein 1742:7 [ref. 30141]. •In the synonymy of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Koinga (subgenus of Squalus) Whitley [G. P.] 1939:242 Fem. Squalus whitleyi Phillipps 1931. Type by original designation. •Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Compagno 1984:109 [ref. 6474]). Current status: Synonym of Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.

Phaenopogon Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1935:122 Masc. Phaenopogon barbulifer Herre 1935. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Cirrhigaleus Tanaka 1912 -- (Viana & Soares 2023:28 [ref. 40450]). Current status: Synonym of Cirrhigaleus Tanaka 1912. Squalidae.

Squalus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:233 Masc. Squalus acanthias Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation of Gill 1862:39 (of separate) [ref. 1783]. [Bonaparte 1838:210 [10 of separate, and see p. 2] [ref. 4979] designated S. glaucus earlier -- needs investigation and perhaps suppression.] Spelled Squallus by Scopoli 1777:464 [ref. 3990], and Sqalus by Berkenhout 1789:59 [ref. 12437]. Also seen as Squalis, but that genus was often used for many kinds of shark. •Valid as Squalus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Krefft & Tortonese 1973:37 [ref. 7165], McEachran & Branstetter in Whitehead et al. 1984:146 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:28 [ref. 6474], Compagno 1984:109 [ref. 6474], Nakaya & Shirai in Masuda et al. 1984:9 [ref. 6441], Bass et al. 1986:60 [ref. 5636], Myagkov & Kondyurin 1986:560 [ref. 8063], Cappetta 1987:58 [ref. 6348], Paxton et al. 1989:37 [ref. 12442], Muñoz-Chápuli & Ramos 1989 [ref. 12577], Gomon et al. 1994:105 [ref. 22532], Compagno 1999:472 [ref. 25589], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:88 [ref. 25968], Compagno 2003:381 [ref. 26984], Compagno et al. 2005:49 [ref. 29145], Hoese 2006:154 [ref. 28998], Last et al. 2007:11 [ref. 29125], Last et al. 2007:23 [ref. 29126], Duffy & Last 2007:31 [ref. 29127], Last et al. 2007:39 [ref. 29128], Last et al. 2007:55 [ref. 29129], White et al. 2007:71 [ref. 29130], Last et al. 2007:83 [ref. 29131], Duffy & Last 2007:91 [ref. 29132], White et al. 2007:109 [ref. 29134], Last et al. 2007:1 [ref. 29135], Ward et al. 2007:117 [ref. 29136], White 2008:82 [ref. 30617], Ebert et al. 2010:22 [ref. 30955], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:10 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:115 [ref. 31212], Castro 2011:51 [ref. 31457], White & Last 2013:229 [ref. 33242], Parin et al. 2014:25 [ref. 33547], Duffy & Last 2015:128 [ref. 34221], Dyldin 2015:56 [ref. 34524], Pietsch & Orr 2015:16 [ref. 34694], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:18 [ref. 34440], Viana et al. 2016:7 [ref. 34525], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:58 [ref. 34398], Viana et al. 2017:[1] [ref. 35249], Motomura et al. 2017:22 [ref. 35490], Viana et al. 2017:1 [ref. 35600], Daly-Engel et al. 2018:135 [ref. 36326], Dyldin & Orlov 2018:165 [ref. 35920], Ehemann et al. 2018:24 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:18 [ref. 35805], Pfleger et al. 2018:101 [ref. 36011], Viana & Carvalho 2018:159 [ref. 35959], White & Ko'ou 2018:11 [ref. 35922], White et al. 2018:36 [ref. 35860], Fricke et al. 2019:43 [ref. 36673], Dolganov 2019:279 [ref. 36997], Viana & Carvalho 2020:275 [ref. 37573], Ebert et al. 2021:21 [ref. 38234], Fricke et al. 2023:1 [ref. 40338]). Current status: Valid as Squalus Linnaeus 1758. Squalidae.