Echinorhinus

Taxobox
name = "Echinorhinus"
fossil_range = Fossil range|84|0 Campanian to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-09 ]

---

image_width = 240px
image_caption = Bramble shark, "Echinorhinus brucus". From plate 3 of "Oceanic Ichthyology" by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean, published 1896.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Echinorhinidae
genus = "Echinorhinus"
genus_authority = Blainville, 1816
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Echinorhinus" is a genus of squaliform sharks, the only genus in the family Echinorhinidae. The name is from Greek "echinos" meaning "sea urchin" and "rhinos" meaning "nose".

This genus includes two extant species characterized by a short nose, rough spiny dermal denticles, no anal fin, and two small spineless dorsal fins. Both species are uncommon, little known, deep-water sharks.

Species

* Bramble shark, "Echinorhinus brucus" (Bonnaterre, 1788).
* Prickly shark, "Echinorhinus cookei" (Pietschmann, 1928).

References

*
*
*
* FAO Species Catalogue Volume 4 Parts 1 and 2 Sharks of the World