Smith's Spurdog

Squalus margaretsmithae Viana, Lisher & Carvalho, 2017

Also calledSpinarolo di Smith (ita)

First described in: de FL Viana, S. T.; Lisher, M. W.; de Carvalho, M. R. (2017). Two new species of short-snouted dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus Linnaeus, 1758, from southern Africa (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes: Squalidae). <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 1-28.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.