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Echinorhinidae
prickly shark
Echinorhinus cookei
One mother may carry more than one hundred embryos
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Largeprickly shark is known from Western Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Bramble Sharks
- Family
- Echinorhinidae
- Genus
- Echinorhinus
- Maximum length
- 400 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: Japan (Ref. 6871 ), Taiwan, Palau, Australia (Ref. 6871 ) and New Zealand. Eastern Pacific: Hawaii, USA, Gulf of California, and from Costa Rica to Peru and Chile (Ref. 13564 ). Also reported in Nicaragua (Ref. 13613 ).
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Conservation status
