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spiny dogfish

DEFINITIONS OF: spiny dogfish

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n small bottom-dwelling dogfishes

Types:
Atlantic spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias
destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe; widely used in anatomy classes
Pacific spiny dogfish, Squalus suckleyi
dogfish of Pacific coast of North America
Type of:
dogfish
any of several small sharks
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