FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

1212 Sharks
Key to the species of Echinorhinidae occurring in the area
1a. Denticles on body few, irregulary distributed,
relatively large, not stellate, some
fused into compound plates with multiple
cusps (Fig. 1a) . . . . . . . Echinorhinus brucus
1b. Denticles on body numerous, regulary
distributed, relatively small, stellate, not
fused into plates with multiple cusps
(Fig. 1b) . . . . . . . . . . . . Echinorhinus cookei a) Echinorhinus brucus b) Echinorhinus cookei
List of species occurring in the area
The symbol is given when species accounts are included.
Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1928
References
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of
shark species known to date. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Fish. Synop., (125)Vol.4,Pt.1: 249 p.
Garrick, J.A.F. 1960. Studies on New Zealand Elasmobranchii. Part 10. The genus “Echinorhinus”, with an account of
a second species, “E. cookei”. Trans. R. Soc. N.Z., 88(1):105-117.
Springer, S. and R.A. Waller. 1969. “Hexanchus vitulus”, a new sixgill shark from the Bahamas. Bull. Mar. Sci.,
19(1):159-174.
Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
En - Bramble shark; Fr - Squale bouclé; Sp - Tiburón de clavos.
Maximum total length about 3.1 m. A large, sluggish, primarily deep-water shark of the continental
and insular shelves and upper slopes at depths from the intertidal to 900 m. Bottom-dwelling; feeds
on small bony fishes, other sharks, and crabs. Of minor importance to fisheries in the area; caught
in bottom trawls. Wide-ranging in tropical and temperate areas in the Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea,
Indian Ocean, and western Pacific.
Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1928
Fig. 1 dermal denticles
En - Pickly shark; Fr - Squale bouclé du Pacifique; Sp - Tiburón negro espinoso.
Maximum total length about 4 m. A large, sluggish bottom-living shark, occurring on continental and
insular shelves and upper slopes at depths from 11 to least 424 m. Feeds on a variety of fishes,
including other sharks, also octopuses and squids. Of minor importance to fisheries; occasionally
taken by line gear, gill nets and bottom trawls. Tropical and temperate areas of the western and
Central Pacific, also occurring in the eastern Pacific from Oregon to the Gulf of California and in
Peru and Chile.
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