Echinorhinus (subgenus of Squalus) Blainville [H. de] 1816:121 Masc. Squalus spinosus Gmelin 1789. Type by monotypy. Also spelled Echinorrhinus in early literature (e.g., Müller & Henle 1837:116 [ref. 3067]). •Valid as Echinorhinus Blainville 1816 -- (Krefft & Tortonese 1973:45 [ref. 7165], McEachran & Branstetter in Whitehead et al. 1984:138 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:25 [ref. 6474], Nakaya & Shirai in Masuda et al. 1984:11 [ref. 6441], Bass & Compagno 1986:63 [ref. 5637], Cappetta 1987:51 [ref. 6348], Paxton et al. 1989:34 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:108 [ref. 22532], Compagno 1999:472 [ref. 25589], Compagno 2003:377 [ref. 26984], Compagno et al. 2005:49 [ref. 29145], Hoese et al. 2006:138 [ref. 28999], White 2008:79 [ref. 30617], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:11 [ref. 36649], Castro 2011:43 [ref. 31457], Stewart 2015:121 [ref. 34217], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:57 [ref. 34398], Ehemann et al. 2018:24 [ref. 36194], Kumar et al. 2018:292 [ref. 36178], Ebert et al. 2021:20 [ref. 38234]). Current status: Valid as Echinorhinus Blainville 1816. Echinorhinidae.