Can Anyone Please Give Me Information About The Dogfish And Its Structure And Characteristics?

The term dogfish is a name of a fish. Mostly comes under the family of sharks and applied to a number of small sharks found in the northeast Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean, especially those in the three families Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae. Although often used in reference to Scyliorhinus canicula, the name is applied only loosely and does not usually signify a close taxonomic relationship. Actually it does not have much resemblance with the sharks, but due to some of its characteristics considered to be in the family of shark.

Dogfish is considered to be the most delicious and tasty as food stuff and as well a good sporty fish. Sometimes it becomes so hazardous animal and a dangerous fighting enemy, while attempted to catch it. It is of one meter length but its power is more than it look like. It has five pairs of gill slits and two dorsal fins, often with a spine along the leading edge, the first dorsal originates in front of pelvic fin origins. It has lack of an anal fin. It has 22 genera in 6 families. Dogfishes inhabit coastal and oceanic waters, mostly in cool temperate to deep tropical waters in both hemispheres, but ranging from the Antarctic to the Arctic.

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