Rhizoprionodon Whitley 1929

Genus Rhizoprionodon Whitley, 1929 Sharpnose Sharks Rhizoprionodon Whitley, 1929: 354; a replacement name for Rhizoprion Ogilby, 1915, preoccupied by Rhizoprion Jourdan, 1861 in mammals. Type species: Carcharias (Scoliodon) crenidens Klunzinger, 1880, by original designation, a junior synonym of Carcharias acutus Rüppell, 1837.Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/122187