spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

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Subject:	spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
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Squalus acanthias

From "The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States", by George Brown Goode (1887).

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nmfs/figb0521.htm

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Squalus_acanthias.jpg

The spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish (Squalus acanthias) is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order. It is found mostly in shallow waters and further offshore in most parts of the world, especially in temperate waters.

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