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The spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias, is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order.piny dogfish are fished for food in Europe, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Chile. The meat is primarily consumed in England, France, the Benelux countries and Germany.
Dogfish sharks are fish; fish are vertebrates, and all vertebrates have bilateral symmetry. This means they have symmetry across one plane (known as the sagittal plane, and directly down the centre of their body), which means one side of their body approximately mirrors the other side.n the northeast Pacific Ocean estimates of the age at maturity for female spiny dogfish have ranged from 20 years and 3 feet (92cm) to 35.5 years and 3.1 feet (94cm. 2 people found this useful.