Meaning | small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts. |
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Member of | Triakidae, family Triakidae | small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins |
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Narrower | American smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis | Found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas |
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Florida smoothhound, Mustelus norrisi | Found from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil |
smoothhound, smoothhound shark, Mustelus mustelus | smooth dogfish of European coastal waters |
whitetip shark, reef whitetip shark, Triaenodon obseus | smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian Oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins |
Broader | dogfish | Any of several small sharks |
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