Echinorhinus Temporal range: Campanian to present
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Bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus | |
Echinorhinus brucus, mounted specimen, on display at the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Division: | Selachii |
Superorder: | Squalomorphi |
Order: | Echinorhiniformes de Buen, 1926 |
Family: | Echinorhinidae T. N. Gill, 1862 |
Genus: | Echinorhinus Blainville, 1816 |
The distribution of the two Echinorhinus species |
Echinorhinus is the only extant genus in the family Echinorhinidae.