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Prickly Shark, Echinorhinus cookei

Description

A Prickly Shark collected in 2004 by an auto-longliner off north-east Tasmania.

Photographer:
Martin Gomon
Rights:
© Museum Victoria
Common name:
Prickly Shark
Scientific name:
Echinorhinus cookei
Family:
Echinorhinidae
Order:
Echinorhiniformes

Additional information

The specimen is registered in the fish collection at Museum Victoria (NMV A 29323-001).

Last Updated: 16 April 2011

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