spiny dogfish

English

Squalus acanthias

Noun

spiny dogfish (plural spiny dogfish)

1. Squalus acanthias, one of the best known of the dogfish which are members of the family Squalidae in the order Squaliformes
   • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

Synonyms

• spurdog, mud shark, piked dogfish

Derived terms

• Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi)

Translations

Squalus acanthias

• Asturian: mielga (ast), tollu (ast), colín (ast)
• Bulgarian: черноморска бодлива акула (černomorska bodliva akula)
• Catalan: agullat (ca) m
• Dutch: doornhaai (nl)
• Finnish: piikkihai (fi)
• French: aiguillat commun (fr), aiguillat tacheté (fr)
• Galician: melga f
• German: Dornhai (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀκανθίας f (akanthías)

• Irish: fíogach gobach m
• Italian: spinarolo
• Korean: 곱상어 (gopsang'eo)
• Norman: mataud m, brotchet m, d'mouaîselle f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pigghå m

  Nynorsk: pigghå (nn) m

• Polish: koleń pospolity
• Russian: колю́чая аку́ла f (koljúčaja akúla), катра́н (ru) m (katrán), ного́тница f (nogótnica)
• Spanish: mielga (es) f, galludo m, tollo de cacho m, mielga (es) f
• Swedish: pigghaj (sv) c, hå (sv) (dialectal)