Best Dogfish
The picked dogfish is the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, notable for its long gestation and its 1758 description by Linnaeus.
The spiny dogfish is Squalus acanthias, a temperate dogfish notable for venom-bearing dorsal spines and a gestation period of roughly 18 to 24 months.
The Portuguese dogfish is a deepwater shark species belonging to the family Somniosidae. Scientifically known as Centroscymnus coelolepis, it inhabits the continental slopes and abyssal plains of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This species is recognized as one of the deepest-living sharks, having...
The Prickly Dogfish (Oxynotus bruniensis) is a distinctive species of deep-sea shark belonging to the rough shark family Oxynotidae, found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is recognized by its unusually high, hump-backed body profile and extremely coarse, thorn-like dermal denticles that give i...
Gulper Shark (Centrophorus granulosus) is a vulnerable deep-water shark heavily exploited for its squalene-rich liver oil used in cosmetics, found in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific.
Leafscale Gulper Shark (Centrophorus squamosus) is a deep-water shark named for its distinctive leaf-shaped dermal denticles, listed as vulnerable due to slow reproduction and fishing pressure.
Birdbeak Dogfish (Deania calcea) is a deep-water shark of family Centrophoridae named for its distinctively long, flattened, rostrum-like snout, distributed across the Atlantic and Pacific.
Zameus squamulosus (Somniosidae), a cosmopolitan deep-sea squaliform shark recorded at 200–2,000 m worldwide, named for its distinctively dense, velvety skin texture.
The roughskin spurdog is Cirrhigaleus asper, a deepwater dogfish notable for rough denticles and records from tropical and temperate oceans.
The shortspine spurdog is a deepwater dogfish shark of the Squalus mitsukurii complex, notable for its short fin spines and wide Indo-Pacific range.
Roughskin Dogfish (Cirrhigaleus asper) is a deep-water squalid shark named for its coarser-than-average skin denticles, recorded in scattered locations across the Atlantic and Pacific.
The longnose spurdog is a small Squalus dogfish shark, notable for its elongated snout and occurrence in eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters.
The New Zealand spurdog is a Squalus dogfish shark found around New Zealand, notable as a southern Pacific endemic recognized from local fisheries.
Centrophorus moluccensis, a gulper shark of the Indo-Pacific found at 125–820 m, distinguished from close relatives by comparatively small, narrow pectoral fins.
The Japanese spurdog is a Squalus dogfish from the northwest Pacific, notable as a regional species described from waters around Japan.
