dogfish

English

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.

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^[1]:
  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.
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. (UK) 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
(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.

terms derived from dogfish

small shark

shark in family Squalidae

shark in family Dalatidae — see kitefin shark

shark in family Scyliorhinidae — see catshark

small sharks of the Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae families

Cornish: ^{(please verify)} morgi
French: please add this translation if you can
German: Dornhaiartige m pl
Greek: ^{(please verify)} σκυλόψαρο (el) n (skylópsaro)
Ancient: γαλεός m (galeós)
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} háfur (is) m
Irish: ^{(please verify)} siorc fíogaigh m, fíogach m
Italian: pescecane (it) m
Latin: ^{(please verify)} canicula f
Manx: ^{(please verify)} caillagh vreck f
Maori: ^{(please verify)} kapetā
Portuguese: cação (pt) m
Russian: ^{(please verify)} морска́я соба́ка f (morskája sobáka)
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} morgi m

bowfin — see bowfin