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 |