smooth dogfish
Noun
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Small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts (synset 101494998)
is a type of: dogfish - any of several small sharkssubtypes:
- mustelus mustelus, smoothhound, smoothhound shark - smooth dogfish of European coastal waters
- american smooth dogfish, mustelus canis - found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas
- florida smoothhound, mustelus norrisi - found from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
- reef whitetip shark, triaenodon obseus, whitetip shark - smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian Oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins
belongs to: family triakidae, triakidae - small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins
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