Author: Agassiz, 1838
Diagnostic Features:
Snout long and conical; eyes moderately large; a symphyseal tooth row and two rows of large upper anterior teeth at each side of symphysis; posterior teeth grading into lateral teeth, cuspidate, with prominent cusplets, and not molariform. First dorsal base closer to pectoral bases than to pelvic bases, with its origin over inner margins of pectorals and its insertion well anterior to pelvic origins; second dorsal fin about half as large as first dorsal; anal fin somewhat smaller than second dorsal and with its origin under or behind second dorsal insertion.
Remarks:
The genus Odontaspis as presently delimited is restricted to species related to O. ferox. The taurus species group is included in the genus Eugomphodus. Carcharias kamoharai Matsubara, 1936 (and its synonyms) have previously been placed in the genus Odontaspis (or Carcharias) by d'Aubrey (1964) and Bass, d'Aubrey and Kistnasamy (1975b), but this species is very distinctive and is here placed in the genus Pseudocarcharias and the family Pseudocarchariidae.