Hawaiian shortspine spurdog

The Hawaiian shortspine spurdog (Squalus hawaiiensis) is a dogfish, a member of the family Squalidae, found in waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands, from the surface to 950 m. Its length is up to 75 cm.[1]

Hawaiian shortspine spurdog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Squalidae
Genus: Squalus
Species:
S. hawaiiensis
Binomial name
Squalus hawaiiensis
Toby S. Daly-Engel, Amber Koch, James M. Anderson, Charles F. Cotton, R. Dean Grubbs, 2018

Taxonomy

Squalus hawaiiensis was once lumped with the Shortspine spurdog, but morphological and genetic data showed that the Hawaiian population was distinct from S. mitsukurii individuals from Japan to be considered a distinct species.[2]

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References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Squalus mitsukurii" in FishBase. July 2006 version.
  2. Daly-Engel TS, Koch A, Anderson JM, Cotton CF, Grubbs RD (2018) Description of a new deep-water dogfish shark from Hawaii, with comments on the Squalus mitsukurii species complex in the West Pacific. ZooKeys 798: 135-157. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.798.28375
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