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Bramble Shark
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Leiden, Netherlands
This shark is a smelly creature. Its body is covered with foul smelling mucus. Furthermore, the bramble shark has scales which develop into thorn-like denticles. None of the other sharks has these denticles. It’s all quite fearsome, but fortunately it has never attacked a human yet.
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Details
- Title: Bramble Shark
- Location: Tropical and temperate waters throughout the world, with the exception of the eastern Pacific.
- Rights: Naturalis Biodiversity Center / CC-BY 4.0
- Wetenschappelijke naam: Echinorhinus spinosus (Gmelin, 1789)
- Meer informatie: http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Echinorhinus-brucus.html
- Klasse: Elasmobranch
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