different between dogfish vs hammerheadshark

English

Alternative forms

• dog-fish

Etymology

dog +? fish. Compare Greek ????????? (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.

Noun

dogfish (plural dogfish or dogfishes)

1. Any of various small sharks
   1. especially those from the family Squalidae
   2. a catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae
   3. a kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae
   4. (Britain) Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris
   5. (Azores Is.) Scyliorhinus canicula
   6. (Canada) Squalus suckleyi
   7. (Bermuda) Mustelus canis
   8. (Barbados) Bodianus rufus
   9. (Guyana) Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis
   10. (Trinidad and Tobago) Ginglymostoma cirratum
   11. (Namibia) Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii
2. (US) The bowfin, Amia calva.

Synonyms

• seadog

Derived terms

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