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Leptocharias Smith 1838 etymology not explained, perhaps leptós (Gr. λεπτός), slender; charias, an abridgement of Carcharias, i.e., a slender shark “very nearly related to Carcharias”

Leptocharias smithii (Müller & Henle 1839) in honor of Andrew Smith (1797–1872), Scottish military physician, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist, who collected many South African sharks and coined many of the shark names later used by Müller and Henle