Echinorhinidae Gill, 1862

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 284

Family Echinorhinidae Gill, 1862

Bramble Sharks / Ǟśḛḕ

Genus Echinorhinus Blainville, 1816

Bramble Sharks / Ǟśḛé

Echinorhinus Blainville, 1816 : (8), 121 (genus Squalus Linnaeus, 1758 ). Type species: "? Spinosus " = Squalus spinosus Gmelin , in Linnaeus and Gmelin, 1789, by monotypy.

Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1928

Prickly Shark / ẶkǞśḛ

Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1928: 297 ; also separately described by Pietschmann, 1930: 3, fig 1, pl.1. Holotype: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, adult male 2033 mm TL, from deep water along south coast of Kauai Island, Hawaiian Islands, disintegrated according to Eschmeyer (2012). Neotype: NMNZ P. 2774, 1980 mm adult (or adolescent?) male, Cook Strait, designated by Garrick, 1960: 110.

Local synonymy: Echinorhinus brucus: Teng, 1958: 28 , fig. 18 (TFRI 102894, 2880 mm TL, Su-Ao); Teng, 1962: 175, fig. 44; Chen, 1963: 97; Shen, 1984a: 67, fig.; Chen & Yu, 1986: 114. Echinorhinus cookei: Chen & Joung, 1993: 35 , pl. 1.7; Shen & Wu, 2011: 79, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: TFRI 102894 , 2880 mm SL (examined by DAE in 1988) ; NMMB-P 15853 , 2310 mm TL, Cheng-gong, 7 Nov 2011 ; NMMB-P 15711 , Cheng-gong, 2 Oct 2011 .

Remarks: This species was originally reported as E. brucus by early researchers in Taiwan ( Teng, 1958, 1962; Chen, 1963; Shen, 1984a; Chen & Yu, 1986), but illustrations and photographs, as well as examination of individuals at the TFRI in Keelung and at several fish markets, confirm the identification of this species as E. cookei .

Conservation status: Near Threatened.