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Lamna philippii
Synonym for Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

  Original name  
  Check ECoF  
  Current accepted name  
No
  Status  
Synonym
  Status details  
junior synonym, original combination
  Status ref.  
  Comment  
Species spelling Escmeyer, pers. comm.
  Etymology of generic noun  
  from ETYFish
From the Greek lamia, a large and voracious shark, originally from Lamia in Greek mythology, daughter of King Belos, who revenged the murder of her children by killing the children of others, and who behaved so cruelly that her face turned into a nightmarish mask. (See ETYFish)
  Link to references  
References using the name as accepted
  Link to other databases  
ITIS TSN : None | Catalogue of Life | ZooBank | WoRMS

Note: ETYFish and FishBase started a collaboration to complete the etymology for all valid names of fishes. For the current update, the following groups were completed: hagfishes (Myxini), lampreys (Petromyzonti), chimaeras (Holocephali), and sharks (Squalomorphi). It is a work in progress, so the two websites may not be synchronized.

Scharpf, C. The ETYFish Project, Fish Name Etymology Database. https://www.etyfish.org
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