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Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 105923

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Pisces > Elasmobranchii > Neoselachii > Selachii > Squalomorphi > Squaliformes > Squalidae > Squalus
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Squalus Linnaeus, 1758
Parent Squalus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100
page(s): 233 [details]


basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian peshkaqen gjëmbor  [details]
Breton c'hi  [details]
Breton spinek  [details]
Danish pighaj  [details]
Dutch doornhaai  [details]
English picky dog  [details]
English piked dogfish  [details]
English spiny dogfish  [details]
English spurdog  [details]
French aiguillat commun  [details]
French aiquillat  [details]
French chien dard  [details]
German Dornhai  [details]
German gemeiner Dornhai  [details]
Hebrew קוצן נקוד  [details]
Icelandic háfur  [details]
Irish fiógach  [details]
Italian spinarolo  [details]
Lithuanian paprastasis dygliaryklis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Κεντρόνι  [details]
Norwegian pigghå  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål pigghå  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk pigghå  [details]
Polish koleń pospolity  [details]
Portuguese galhudo  [details]
Romanian câine de mare  [details]
Russian Акула катран  [details]
Scottish Gaelic cu-maire  [details]
Spanish agulat  [details]
Spanish galludos  [details]
Spanish mielga  [details]
Swedish  [details]
Swedish pigghaj  [details]
Turkish mahmuzlu camgoz  [details]
Turkish mahmuzlu camgöz  [details]
Ukrainian Акула катран  [details]
Ukrainian Катран  [details]
Ukrainian Катран звичайний  [details]
Ukrainian морський собака  [details]
Welsh ci pigog  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Baltic sea [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Black Sea [details]
British Columbia [details]
British Isles [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
IJsselmeer [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oosterschelde [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Reunion [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Zeeschelde (not certain[details]
Host of  Caligus coryphaenae Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus curtus O. F. Müller, 1785 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Eudactylina acanthii Scott A., 1901 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Eudactylina acuta van Beneden, 1853 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Charopinus dalmanni (Retzius, 1829) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudocharopinus bicaudatus (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echthrogaleus coleoptratus (Guérin-Méneville, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pandarus bicolor Leach, 1816 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Trebius caudatus Krøyer, 1838 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus euthynus Kurian, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Demoleus latus Shiino, 1954 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Eudactylina valei Nuñes-Ruivo, 1956 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Perissopus oblongus (Wilson C.B., 1908) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Achtheinus dentatus Wilson C.B., 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Achtheinus oblongus Wilson C.B., 1908 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nogagus ambiguus T. Scott, 1907 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nogagus latus T. Scott, 1907 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (248 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (541 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (33035 nucleotides; 519 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Opportunistic feeder, but primarily small fishes such as herrring, capelin and cod [details]

Distribution: Greenland to Argentina [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat: Frequents coastal and inshore waters, found at temperatures of 6-15 C. [details]

Importance: Scientific- North America- univerisity laboratory dissection specimen, nuisance to fishing industry; Europe-widely used as food [details]

Predators: Young vulnerable to predaceous bony fishes and sharks. Adults prey to large predacious bony fishes and to marine mammals. [details]

Reproduction: Ovoviviparous, gestation period of 22 months, birth occurs during winter in offshore waters [details]
Images 
Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758
Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-08-11 - author: CEFAS/Jim Ellis/2005
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Gilson (1921, fig. 09)
Gilson (1921, fig. 09)
added on 2008-06-11 - author: Anoniem in Gilson, G. (1921)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Poll (1947, fig. 038 & 039)
Poll (1947, fig. 038 & 039)
added on 2008-08-11 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947) (naar Bonaparte)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Squalus acanthias
Squalus acanthias
added on 2008-12-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Spiny dogfish
Spiny dogfish
added on 2011-01-03 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Spiny dogfish
Spiny dogfish
added on 2011-02-28 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian Shark Research Lab, Steven Campana ()
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Squalus acanthias
Squalus acanthias
added on 2011-03-04 - author: VLIZ (Decleer)
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Squalus acanthias
Squalus acanthias
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Jeff McRuer ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105923
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105923 on 2013-05-22
  
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