Squalidae

Dogfish sharks

41 species

1. 1Cirrhigaleus asper (Merrett, 1973) · Roughskin spurdogocean · deep-water
2. 2Cirrhigaleus australis White, Last & Stevens, 2007 · Southern Mandarin Dogfishocean · temperate
3. 3Cirrhigaleus barbifer Tanaka, 1912 · Mandarin dogfishocean · deep-water
4. 4Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 · Piked dogfishbrackish · ocean · temperate
5. 5Squalus albicaudus Viana, Carvalho & Gomes, 2016 · Brazilian whitetail dogfishocean · tropical
6. 6Squalus albifrons Last, White & Stevens, 2007 · Eastern highfin spurdogocean · tropical
7. 7Squalus altipinnis Last, White & Stevens, 2007 · Western highfin spurdogocean · tropical
8. 8Squalus bahiensis Viana, Carvalho & Gomes, 2016 · Northeastern Brazilian dogfishocean · tropical
9. 9Squalus bassi Viana, Carvalho & Ebert, 2017 · Long-snouted African spurdogocean · tropical
10. 10Squalus blainville (Risso, 1827) · Longnose spurdogbrackish · ocean · subtropical
11. 11Squalus boretzi Dolganov, 2019ocean · tropical
12. 12Squalus brevirostris Tanaka, 1917ocean · subtropical
13. 13Squalus bucephalus Last, Séret & Pogonoski, 2007 · Bighead spurdogocean · tropical
14. 14Squalus chloroculus Last, White & Motomura, 2007 · Greeneye spurdogocean · deep-water
15. 15Squalus clarkae Pfleger, Grubbs, Cotton & Daly-Engel, 2018 · Genie's dogfishocean · tropical
16. 16Squalus crassispinus Last, Edmunds & Yearsley, 2007 · Fatspine spurdogocean · subtropical
17. 17Squalus cubensis Howell Rivero, 1936 · Cuban dogfishocean · subtropical
18. 18Squalus edmundsi White, Last & Stevens, 2007 · Edmund's spurdogocean · tropical
19. 19Squalus formosus White & Iglésias, 2011 · Taiwan spurdogocean · subtropical
20. 20Squalus grahami White, Last & Stevens, 2007 · Eastern longnose spurdogocean · tropical
21. 21Squalus griffini Phillipps, 1931 · Northern spiny dogfishocean · subtropical
22. 22Squalus hawaiiensis Daly-Engel, Koch, Anderson, Cotton & Grubbs, 2018 · Hawaiian spurdogocean · tropical
23. 23Squalus hemipinnis White, Last & Yearsley, 2007 · Indonesian shortsnout spurdogocean · tropical
24. 24Squalus hima Sweta & Bineesh, 2024 · Indian spurdogocean · tropical · newer than the 2023 backbone
25. 25Squalus japonicus Ishikawa, 1908 · Japanese spurdogocean · deep-water
26. 26Squalus lalannei Baranes, 2003ocean · tropical
27. 27Squalus lobularis Viana, Carvalho & Gomes, 2016 · Atlantic lobefin dogfishocean · subtropical
28. 28Squalus longispinis Fricke, Durville, Potin & Mulochau, 2023 · La Réunion longspine spurdogocean · tropical
29. 29Squalus mahia Viana, Lisher & Carvalho, 2017 · Malagasy skinny spurdogocean · tropical
30. 30Squalus margaretsmithae Viana, Lisher & Carvalho, 2017 · Smith's dogfish sharkocean · tropical
31. 31Squalus megalops (Macleay, 1881) · Shortnose spurdogocean · subtropical
32. 32Squalus melanurus Fourmanoir, 1979 · Blacktailed spurdogocean · deep-water
33. 33Squalus mitsukurii Jordan & Snyder, 1903 · Shortspine spurdogocean · deep-water
34. 34Squalus montalbani Whitley, 1931 · Philippiines spurdogocean · deep-water
35. 35Squalus nasutus Last, Marshall & White, 2007 · Western longnose spurdogocean · tropical
36. 36Squalus notocaudatus Last, White & Stevens, 2007 · Bartail spurdogocean · tropical
37. 37Squalus quasimodo Viana, Carvalho & Gomes, 2016 · Humpback Western dogfishocean · tropical
38. 38Squalus rancureli Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979 · Cyrano spurdogocean · deep-water
39. 39Squalus raoulensis Duffy & Last, 2007 · Kermadec spiny dogfishocean · tropical
40. 40Squalus shiraii Viana & Carvalho, 2020 · Shirai's spurdogocean · subtropical
41. 41Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1855) · Pacific spiny dogfishbrackish · ocean · subtropical

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