 Indeed, it may even be in reproductive collapse, in which case it will likely become extinct in the near future.The first scientific description of the daggernose shark, as "Carcharias oxyrhynchus", was published by German biologists Johannes Peter Müller and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle in their 1839 "Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen".They chose the specific epithet "oxyrhynchus", from the Greek ' ("sharp" or "pointed") and ' ("nose").