The prickly dogfish is occasionally caught incidentally by bottom trawlers, and probably discarded.

With a very stout body and a highly arched back, the prickly dogfish has an unmistakable profile.

A known parasite of the prickly dogfish is the monogenean Asthenocotyle taranakiensis.

Oxynotus bruniensis (Prickly dogfish)

The unusual shape and sizable, oily liver of the prickly dogfish suggests that it is a slow swimmer that can hover over the sea floor with minimal effort.

Found near the sea floor over outer continental and insular shelves and upper slopes, the prickly dogfish is thought to be a slow-moving predator of small benthic organisms.

The prickly dogfish (Oxynotus bruniensis) is a poorly known species of dogfish shark in the family Oxynotidae, inhabiting temperate Australian and New Zealand waters.

Australian ichthyologist James Douglas Ogilby originally described the prickly dogfish from a desiccated specimen discovered on a beach on Bruny Island off southeastern Tasmania, Australia.

An uncommon resident of temperate waters, the prickly dogfish occurs off Australia from Crowdy Head in New South Wales, around the southern coast of Tasmania, to as far as Esperance in Western Australia.

The prickly dogfish (Oxynotus bruniensis) is a poorly known species of dogfish shark in the family Oxynotidae, inhabiting temperate Australian and New Zealand waters.