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Rhincodon Smith 1829 rhinc, presumably a typographical error for rhínē (Gr. ῥίνη), rasp, but often mistranslated as rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout; odon, Latinized and grammatically adjusted from the Greek nominative ὀδούς (odoús), tooth, referring to small, slightly curved teeth, “placed in longitudinal rows, and altogether so disposed towards the anterior edges of jaws as to exhibit the resemblance of a rasp or file lying across each”

Rhincodon typus Smith 1828 serving as type species of the genus