Scyllium canicula = Scyliorhinus canicula (small-spotted catshark, lesser spotted dogfish) Scyliorhinus canicula syn. Scyllium canicula
English: Rowhound (Scyllium canicula)
Author Reinhold Thiele (1856–1921)
Subject: Dogfishes, Scyllium
Tag: Fish
Date 1904
Source/Photographer Aflalo, F. G. / Frederick George Aflalo 1870-1918 -- (1904) British Salt-Water Fishes, London: Hutchinson & Co.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFMIB_51250_Rowhound_%28Scyllium_canicula%29.jpeg
The small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula), also known as the sandy dogfish, lesser-spotted dogfish, rough-hound or morgay (in Scotland and Cornwall), is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. Scyliorhinus canicula is found on the continental shelves and the uppermost continental slopes off the coasts of Norway and the British Isles south to Senegal and in the Mediterranean. The small-spotted catsharks are small, shallow-water sharks with a slender body and a blunt head. The upper side of the body is greyish brown with dark brown spots.
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Scyliorhinus
Species: Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
