Echinorhinus

Echinorhinus
Temporal range: 84–0 Ma[1] Campanian to present
Bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus
Echinorhinus brucus, mounted specimen, on display at the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2008-01-09.