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What is a dogfish?

What is a dogfish? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various small sharks
    1. especially those from the family Squalidae
    2. a catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
    3. a kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
    4. (Britain) Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
    5. (Azores Is.) Scyliorhinus canicula
    6. (Canada) Squalus suckleyi
    7. (Bermuda) Mustelus canis
    8. (Barbados) Bodianus rufus
    9. (Guyana) Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
    10. (Trinidad, Tobago) Ginglymostoma cirratum
    11. (Namibia) Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
  2. (US) The bowfin, Amia calva.
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As a youngster he fished off the rocks for the usual species of cod, pollack, coley, wrasse, mackerel and dogfish with the odd plaice or eel.
There are two species of dogfish in Guernsey waters, the Lesser Spotted and the Greater Spotted of Bull Huss.
Like all sharks, dogfish have no true bones but make do with a cartilaginous skeleton.
In the intestine there is a spiral valve, like that in the dogfish, which is not present in more advanced bony fishes.
Tope packs come in shallow and work the edges of stony reefs looking for black bream, school bass, rockling and even small dogfish.
Single forms were cloned from dogfish shark, greenland shark, both lamprey species, hagfish, and amphioxus.

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