Prickly shark (Cooke’s shark)

Echinorhinus cookei

Length Up to 13 ft
Description Grayish-brown body with black margins on fins; underside of snout light colored; no anal fin; large thorny denticles scattered about body and fins
Food Mollusks, fish (including sharks)
Habitat Bottom areas to depths of over 1,300 ft
Reproduction Uncertain, presumed aplacental vivipary; litter size to at least 114; size at maturity 6 ft for males, 6.5 ft for females