Image: Teeth of a Prickly Shark, Echinorhinus cookei
Description
Teeth of a 2.84 m long Prickly Shark caught on hook and line by R. Howard, at a depth of 240 m, near North Solitary Island, New South Wales, January 1981.
- Photographer:
- Isobel Bennett
- Rights:
- © Isobel Bennett
- Common name:
- Prickly Shark
- Scientific name:
- Echinorhinus cookei
- Family:
- Echinorhinidae
- Order:
- Echinorhiniformes
Additional information
The jaws are registered in the Australian Museum fish collection (AMS I.25335-001).
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