# dogfish
## English
### Alternative forms

* dog-fish

### Etymology

From dog +‎ fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

dogfish (plural dogfish or dogfishes)
* Any of various small sharks
** 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎:Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.
** Especially those from the family Squalidae
** A catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
** A kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
** (UK) Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
** (Azores Is.) Scyliorhinus canicula
** (Canada) Squalus suckleyi
** (Bermuda) Mustelus canis
** (Barbados) Bodianus rufus
** (Guyana) Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
** (Trinidad and Tobago) Ginglymostoma cirratum
** (Namibia) Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
* (US) The bowfin, Amia calva.
** 1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.

#### Synonyms

* seadog

#### Derived terms

* arrowhead dogfish (Deania profundorum)
* Azores dogfish (Scymnodalatias garricki)
* bareskin dogfish (Centroscyllium kamoharai)
* birdbeak dogfish (Deania calcea)
* black dogfish (Centroscyllium fabricii)
* broadband dogfish (Etmopterus gracilispinis)
* chain dogfish (Scyliorhinus retifer)
* combtooth dogfish (Centroscyllium nigrum)
* Cuban dogfish (Squalus cubensis)
* deepwater spiny dogfish (Centrophorus squamosus)
* dogfish orientalis (Plectorhinchus lineatus, a grunt native to coral reefs of the western Pacific Ocean)
* dogfish shark
* granular dogfish (Centroscyllium granulatum)
* greater spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus stellaris)
* Harrison's dogfish (Centrophorus harrissoni)
* highfin dogfish (Centroscyllium excelsum)
* hooktooth dogfish (Aculeola nigra)
* Japanese velvet dogfish (Zameus ichiharai)
* knifetooth dogfish (Scymnodon ringens)
* largespine velvet dogfish (Proscymnodon macracanthus)
* lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)
* longnose velvet dogfish (Centroselachus crepidater)
* longsnout dogfish (Deania quadrispinosa)
* mandarin dogfish (Cirrhigaleus barbifer)
* needle dogfish (Centrophorus granulosus)
* ornate dogfish (Centroscyllium ornatum)
* Plunket's dogfish (Centroscymnus plunketi
* Portuguese dogfish (Centroscymnus coelolepis)
* prickly dogfish (Oxynotus bruniensis)
* rasptooth dogfish (Etmopterus sheikoi (alternately known as Miroscyllium sheikoi)
* rough longnose shark (Deania hystricosa)
* roughskin dogfish (Centroscymnus owstonii)
* sherwood dogfish (Scymnodalatias sherwoodi)
* shortnose velvet dogfish (Centroscymnus owstonii)
* smooth dogfish (Mustelus canis)
* southern dogfish (Centrophorus zeehaani)
* southern Mandarin dogfish (Cirrhigaleus australis)
* sparsetooth dogfish (Scymnodalatias oligodon)
* spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
* Taiwanese dogfish (Squalus formosus)
* velvet dogfish (Zameus squamulosus)
* viper dogfish (Trigonognathus kabeyai)
* whitetail dogfish (Scymnodalatias albicauda)
* whitefin dogfish (Centroscyllium ritteri)

#### Translations
### See also

* dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta, salmon family)
* catfish
* flake
* smooth hound (sharks in genus Mustelus)
* waterdog

### Further reading

* Dogfish shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia