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North Pacific Spiny Dogfish

Squalus suckleyi

Classification

Family
Squalidae

The Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) is a common species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks and are among the most abundant species of sharks in the world. This species is closely related to the Spiny dogfish and for many years they were treated as a single species. Recent research, using meristic, morphological and molecular data led to the resurrection of the Pacific spiny dogfish as a separate species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 35,374United States of America · 212Mexico · 2