spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

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spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

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Description
English: Dog-Fish
Subject: Dogfish
Tag: Fish
Date 1876
Source/Photographer
English: (1876) Treasures of the Deep : a Descriptive Account of the Great Fisheries and Their Products, London: Nelson and Sons, p. 324
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_43675_Dog-Fish.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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