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spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
Subject: spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
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FMIB 46033 Rough Hound.jpeg
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spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)


Author Jonathan Couch (1789–1870)
English: Rough Hound
Lesser Spotted Dogfish Rowhound Morghi Squalus catulus Catulus minor Catulus aristotelis Scyllium catulus Squale roussette
Subject: Dogfish
Tag: Fish
Date 1877
Source/Photographer
English: Couch, Jonathan (1877) History of the Fishes of the British Islands, London: George Bell & Sons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_46033_Rough_Hound.jpeg

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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