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Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Elasmobranchii
order
Squaliformes
family
Echinorhinidae
genus
Echinorhinus
species
Echinorhinus brucus

Name

Synonyms
Echinorhinus mccoyi Whitley, 1931
Echinorhinus obesus Smith, 1838
Echinorhinus spinosus (Gmelin, 1789)
Squalus brucus Bonnaterre, 1788
Squalus spinosus Gmelin, 1789
Homonyms
Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Common names
Bramble Shark in English
Bramble shark in English
Chenille in French
Civili köpek baligi in Turkish
Cook's braamhaai in Dutch
Kalb in Arabic
Kikuzame in Japanese
Murruna tal-fosos in Maltese
Murruna tax-xewk in Maltese
Murruna xewwikija in Maltese
Nagelhai in German
Nagelhai in German
Nagelhai in German
Okahai in Finnish
Pas zvjezdas in Serbian
Peixe-prego in Portuguese
Peixe-prego in Portuguese
Peshkagen therrës in Albanian
Peshkaqen therrës in Albanian
Pex tachuela in Spanish
Pez clavo in Spanish
Pez tachuela in Spanish
Prego in Portuguese
Rekin kolczasty in Polish
Ronco in Italian
Ronco in Italian
Rubioca in Spanish
Spinous shark in English
Spiny Shark in English
Squale bouclé in French
Squale bouclé in French
Stachelhai in German
Szedercápa in Hungarian
Sømhaj in Danish
Tiburón Espinoso in Spanish
Tiburón de clavos in Spanish
Tubarâo-prego in Portuguese
Tubarão-prego in Portuguese
bouclé in French
bouclé in French
braamhaai in Dutch
braamhaai in Dutch
bramble shark in English
bramble shark in English
bramble shark in English
chenille in French
chenille in French
civili camgoz in Turkish
civili camgoz in Turkish
civili kopekbaligi in Turkish

Bibliographic References

  1. Burgess, George H. / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Bramble Sharks: Family Echinorhinidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 47-48.
  2. Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748.
  3. Compagno, Leonard J. V. / Hamlett, William C., ed., 1999: Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs. Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. 471-498.
  4. Compagno, Leonard J. V., 1984: Sharks of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, no. 125, vol. 4, pt. 1.
  5. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  6. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  7. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  8. King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554.
  9. Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp.
  10. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  11. McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  12. Moore, Jon A., Karsten E. Hartel, James E. Craddock, and John K. Galbraith, 2003: An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, vol. 10, no. 2. 159-248.
  13. Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp.
  14. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  15. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  16. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  17. van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374
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