Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Squaliformes > Squalidae > Squalus > Squalus megalops

Squalus megalops (Short-nose spurdog; Tasmanian dogfish; Spurdog; Spiny dogshark; Spiny dogfish; Spikey dogfish; Spikey dog; Spikey; Spiked dogfish; Skittle dogfish; Skittle dog; Shortnose spurdog; Shortnose spiny dogfish; Piked spurdog; Piked dogfish; Greeneye; Dogshark; Dogfish; Bluntnose spiny dogfish)

Synonyms: Acanthias megalops; Squalis megalops; Squalus acutipinnis; Squalus probatovi (heterotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The shortnose spurdog, Squalus megalops, is a dogfish, a member of the family Squalidae, found at depths from 30 to 750 m on the eastern coast Australia, Its length is up to 71 cm.
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Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  15 years
Litter Size [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [1]  75 years

Prey / Diet

Engraulis capensis (Southern African anchovy)[2]
Funchalia woodwardi[2]
Octopus vulgaris (common octopus)[2]
Paracallionymus costatus (Ladder dragonet)[2]
Pterygosquilla armata[2]

Predators

Carcharhinus brachyurus (Shark)[2]
Leucoraja wallacei (Yellowspotted skate)[2]
Notorynchus cepedianus (Tiger shark)[3]
Sphyrna zygaena (Smooth hammerhead shark)[2]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Feeding ecology of two high-order predators from south-eastern Australia: the coastal broadnose and the deepwater sharpnose sevengill sharks, J. Matías Braccini, Marine Ecology Progress Series 371:273–284 (2008)
♦ 4Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0