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spiny dogfish

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Noun1.spiny dogfish - small bottom-dwelling dogfishesspiny dogfish - small bottom-dwelling dogfishes      
dogfish - any of several small sharks
family Squalidae, Squalidae - dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin
Atlantic spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias - destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe; widely used in anatomy classes
Pacific spiny dogfish, Squalus suckleyi - dogfish of Pacific coast of North America
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Abstract--From 1978 to 1988, approximately 71,000 spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) were tagged off the west coast of Canada.
Migration patterns of spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) in the North ... by McFarlane, Gordon A.; King, Jacquelynne R. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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