Shortspine spurdog
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 Range of the shortspine spurdog (in blue)
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The shortspine spurdog, Squalus mitsukurii, is a dogfish, a member of the family Squalidae, found circumglobally on the continental and insular shelves and upper slopes, in temperate and subtropical oceans between latitudes 45° N and 55° S, from the surface to 950 m. Its length is up to 75 cm.
The shortspine spurdog is a large dogfish with a long, angular snout and a small mouth slightly more than half the snout length. The body is usually without spots, and the first dorsal fin spine is over the pectoral fins. It feeds on bony fishes including hake, snoek, conger eels, lanternfishes, cephalopods, and crustaceans.
Coloration is pearl-grey above, white below, with white-edged fins, and sides rarely with white spots.
Its reproduction is ovoviviparous, with about 4 to 9 pups in a litter.
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- "Squalus mitsukurii". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. July 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
