Rare #Shark Spotted for the First Time in #Panama’s Eastern Pacific https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-tropical-research-institute/2024/03/09/rare-shark-spotted-for-the-first-time-in-panamas-eastern-pacific/
First evidence of prickly shark, Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann 1928, aggregation on seamounts in the eastern #Pacific, Panama https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jfb.15720
"The elusive #PricklyShark was observed during a #submarine expedition to the depths of the #CordilleraDeCoiba #seamounts, a #biodiversity hotspot and marine protected area."