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Echinorhinus is a genus of squaliform shark
Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full Cartilage skeleton and a highly Streamlines, streaklines and pathlinesd body. They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits....
s, the only extant genus in the family Echinorhinidae. The name is from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 echinos meaning "sea urchin
Sea urchin

Sea urchins are small, spiny, globular creatures that compose most of class Echinoidea. They are found in oceans all over the world. Their shell, or "test", is round and spiny, typically from 3 to 10 cm across....
" and rhinos meaning "nose". Both species are uncommon, little known sharks. They are found worldwide in cold temperate to tropical seas down to depth.

This genus includes two extant species characterized by a short nose, rough spiny dermal denticle
Dermal denticle

Denticles are body surface structures found on some fish and insects.Denticles or placoid scales are small scale which cover the skin of many cartilaginous fish including sharks....
s, no anal fin, and two small spineless dorsal fin
Dorsal fin

A wikt:dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish, whales, dolphins, and porpoises, as well as the ichthyosaurs. Its main purpose is to stabilize the animal against rolling and assist in sudden turns....
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Echinorhinus is a genus of squaliform shark
Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full Cartilage skeleton and a highly Streamlines, streaklines and pathlinesd body. They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits....
s, the only extant genus in the family Echinorhinidae. The name is from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 echinos meaning "sea urchin
Sea urchin

Sea urchins are small, spiny, globular creatures that compose most of class Echinoidea. They are found in oceans all over the world. Their shell, or "test", is round and spiny, typically from 3 to 10 cm across....
" and rhinos meaning "nose". Both species are uncommon, little known sharks. They are found worldwide in cold temperate to tropical seas down to depth.

This genus includes two extant species characterized by a short nose, rough spiny dermal denticle
Dermal denticle

Denticles are body surface structures found on some fish and insects.Denticles or placoid scales are small scale which cover the skin of many cartilaginous fish including sharks....
s, no anal fin, and two small spineless dorsal fin
Dorsal fin

A wikt:dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish, whales, dolphins, and porpoises, as well as the ichthyosaurs. Its main purpose is to stabilize the animal against rolling and assist in sudden turns....
s. Both species are relatively large sharks, at and in body length. They feed on smaller fish, and on crabs and cephalopod
Cephalopod

The cephalopods are the mollusc class Cephalopoda characterized by bilateral symmetry, a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot, a muscular hydrostat, into the form of cephalopod arms or tentacles....
s. They are ovoviviparous, with the mother retaining the egg-cases inside her body until they hatch.

Species


  • Bramble shark
    Bramble shark

    The bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus, is covered with large, thorn-like denticles, and hence the name "bramble" shark....
    , Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre
    Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre

    Abb? Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was a France natural history who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the Tableau encyclop?dique et m?thodique....
    , 1788)    .
  • Prickly shark
    Prickly shark

    The prickly shark, Echinorhinus cookei, is a species of large bottom dwelling shark from the Pacific Ocean....
    , Echinorhinus cookei (Pietschmann
    Viktor Pietschmann

    Viktor Pietschmann was an Austrian ichthyologist at the Naturhistorisches Museum. He was the curator of the fish collection from 1919 to 1946. During his life, he made collecting to trips to the Barents Sea, Greenland, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Hawaii, Romania, and Poland....
    , 1928)    .


See also

  • List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
    List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish

    This list of prehistoric cartilaginous fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus that have ever been included in the class chondrichthyes and are known from the fossil record....