The prickly
shark is a slow-moving, harmless, bramble shark. All
over its body are thorny dermal denticles, giving this
shark its name. The prickly shark grows to be about
13 ft (4 m) long. Is skin is grayish brown with black
edgings on its fins and white around the mouth and under
the head. The prickly shark has a short, stocky body,
a spiracle behind each eye (but in front of the five
gill slits), two spineless dorsal fins and no anal fins.
Very little is known about this rarely seen, but common
shark.
