Spurdog
| Spurdogs Temporal range: Campanian to Present[1]
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| Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Squalidae |
| Genus: | Squalus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Squalus is a genus of dogfish sharks in the family Squalidae. Commonly known as spurdogs, these sharks are characterized by smooth dorsal fin spines, teeth in upper and lower jaws similar in size, caudal peduncle with lateral keels; upper precaudal pit usually present, and caudal fin without subterminal notch. In spurdogs, the hyomandibula (the bone connecting the braincase to the jaws) is oriented at a right angle to the neurocranium, while in other sharks, the hyomandibula runs more parallel to the body. This led some to think that the upper jaw of Squalus would not be as protractile as the jaws of other sharks. However, a study that compared different jaw suspension types in sharks showed that this is not the case and that Squalus is quite capable of protruding its upper jaw during feeding.[2]
The name comes from squalus, the Latin for shark; this word is the root for numerous words related to sharks such as squaline and scientific names for sharks, such as the order Squaliformes.
Species[]
Currently, 32 recognized species are placed in this genus:
- Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 (spiny dogfish) [3]
- Squalus albicaudus , & , 2016 (Brazilian whitetail dogfish) [3]
- Squalus albifrons Last, W. T. White & , 2007 (eastern highfin spurdog)
- Squalus altipinnis Last, W. T. White & , 2007 (western highfin spurdog)
- Squalus bahiensis , & , 2016 (northeastern Brazilian dogfish) [3]
- Squalus blainville (A. Risso, 1827) (longnose spurdog)
- Squalus brevirostris S. Tanaka (I), 1917 (Japanese shortnose spurdog)
- Squalus bucephalus Last, & , 2007 (bighead spurdog)
- Squalus chloroculus Last, W. T. White & , 2007 (greeneye spurdog)
- Squalus clarkae Pfleger, Grubbs, Cotton & Daly-Engel, 2018 (Genie's dogfish)
- Squalus crassispinus Last, & , 2007 (fatspine spurdog)
- Squalus cubensis Howell-Rivero, 1936 (Cuban dogfish)
- Squalus edmundsi W. T. White, Last & , 2007 (Edmund's spurdog)
- Squalus formosus W. T. White & , 2011 (Taiwan spurdog)
- Squalus grahami W. T. White, Last & , 2007 (eastern longnose spurdog)
- Squalus griffini Phillipps, 1931 (northern spiny dogfish)
- Squalus hawaiiensis , , Anderson, , , 2018 (Hawaiian spurdog)
- Squalus hemipinnis W. T. White, Last & , 2007 (Indonesian shortsnout spurdog)
- Squalus japonicus Ishikawa, 1908 (Japanese spurdog)
- Squalus lalannei , 2003 (Seychelles spurdog)
- Squalus lobularis , & , 2016 (Atlantic lobefin dogfish) [3]
- Squalus megalops (W. J. Macleay, 1881) (shortnose spurdog)
- Squalus melanurus Fourmanoir & , 1979 (blacktailed spurdog)
- Squalus mitsukurii D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1903 (shortspine spurdog)
- Squalus montalbani Whitley, 1931 (Indonesian greeneye spurdog)
- Squalus nasutus Last, & W. T. White, 2007 (western longnose spurdog)
- Squalus notocaudatus Last, W. T. White & , 2007 (bartail spurdog)
- Squalus quasimodo , & , 2016 (humpback western dogfish) [3]
- Squalus rancureli Fourmanoir & , 1979 (Cyrano spurdog)
- Squalus raoulensis & Last, 2007 (Kermadec spiny dogfish)
- & , 2020 (Shirai's spurdog) [4]
- Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1855) (Pacific spiny dogfish)
Squalus acanthias
Squalus blainville
Squalus bucephalus
Squalus chloroculus
Squalus cubensis
Squalus megalops
Squalus melanurus
Squalus mitsukurii
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560.
- ^ Wilga, C.D., Motta, P.J. & Sanford, C.P. (2007): Evolution and ecology of feeding in elasmobranchs. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 47 (1): 55-69.
- ^ a b c d e Viana, S.T.d.F., Carvalho, M.R.d. & Gomes, U.L. (2016): Taxonomy and morphology of species of the genus Squalus Linnaeus, 1758 from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes: Squalidae). Zootaxa, 4133 (1): 1-89.
- ^ Viana, Sarah T. F. L.; Carvalho, Marcelo R. de (2020-10-06). "Squalus shiraii sp. nov. (Squaliformes, Squalidae), a new species of dogfish shark from Japan with regional nominal species revisited". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 96 (2): 275–311. doi:10.3897/zse.96.51962. ISSN 1860-0743.
- Squalus
- Extant Campanian first appearances
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus