Echinorhinus

2 species

Echinorhinus is the only extant genus in the family Echinorhinidae.

These sharks are found worldwide in cold temperate to tropical seas from the surface down to 900 m (3,000 ft).

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Echinorhinus is the only extant genus in the family Echinorhinidae.

These sharks are found worldwide in cold temperate to tropical seas from the surface down to 900 m (3,000 ft).

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Bramble shark

Echinorhinus brucus

The bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus) is one of the two species of sharks in the family Echinorhinidae. Aside from the eastern Pacific Ocean, it is found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide. This rarely encountered shark swims close to the...

Prickly shark

Echinorhinus cookei

The prickly shark (Echinorhinus cookei) is one of the two species of sharks in the family Echinorhinidae (the other one is the bramble shark), found in the Pacific Ocean over continental and insular shelves and slopes, and in submarine canyons....