spiny dogfish

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Squalus acanthias

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spiny dogfish (plural spiny dogfish)

  1. Squalus acanthias, one of the best known of the dogfish which are members of the family Squalidae in the order Squaliformes
    • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
      Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

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