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Study Material

(a) Adult: Male, 1,980 mm T. L. (Neotype, Dom. Mus. No. 2774) lined from 40–50 fathoms, Palliser Bay (Cook Strait, New Zealand), Aprial, 1959.

(b) Juveniles: Female, 450 mm T. L., male, 445 mm T. L. (Dom. Mus. No. 2792) and male, 472 mm T. L. trawled from Cook Strait, New Zealand, about 1946 or 1947 and held in the Zoology Department, Victoria University of Wellington.

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Text-fig. 2—Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1,980 mm male (neotype, Dom. Mus. No. 2774) New Zealand. Fig. A, lateral view and insets of transverse sections of snout and peduncle. Fig. B, ventral view of head. Fig. C, maxillary velum (medial half, left side) showing fleshy papillae behind teeth, and fimbriated posterior margin. Fig. D, right nostril. Fig. E, dermal denticles from high on side, halfway along trunk, drawn from dried skin. Fig. F, external view of denticle. Figs. G-H, lateral views of recurved and erect denticles. Figs. I-J, upper and lower teeth, right side. cl, level of cloaca.