The Nature LibraryEN·ES
FishesSqualiformesSqualidae
No openly licensed image yet. Many species are known only from a description and a specimen in a drawer.

La Réunion longspine spurdog

Squalus longispinis Fricke, Durville, Potin & Mulochau, 2023

Recognised by FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase. The general catalogues (GBIF, iNaturalist, the Catalogue of Life) do not list it under this name yet: usually because it was described recently, or moved to a new genus, and they still file it under an older name. Everything gathered for it so far is below.

Lives inocean

Look for the species name “longispinis” across the library →

§·

Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Squalus longispinis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

Source: FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase, fetched 2026-10-18.