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smoothhound

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smoothhound: see dogfish dogfish, name for a number of small sharks of several different families. Best known are the spiny dogfishes (family Squalidae) and the smooth dogfishes (family Triakidae). Spiny dogfishes have two spines, one in front of each dorsal fin, and lack an anal fin.
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Five threatened species - spurdog, smoothhound, tope, blue and porbeagle - are being tagged and released by fishermen.
uk CAPTION(S): SMOOTH OPERATOR: Mark Jones, of Church Village, caught a 10lb common smoothhound using squid when he went fishing at Llantwit Major
Patagonian cod (Salilota australis); hoki (Macrorunus magellanicus); tope shark (Galeorhinus galena), Patagonian smoothhound (Mustelus schmitti), among others).
 
 
 
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