Distributions and Habitats: Squalidae FAMILY Squalidae de Blainville, 1816 - dogfish sharks GENUS Cirrhigaleus Tanaka, 1912 - dogfishes Species Cirrhigaleus asper (Merrett, 1973) - roughskin dogfish Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) to northern Gulf of Mexico; southwestern Indian Ocean: South Africa and Mozambique to Aldabra and Mascarenes; Hawaiian Islands. Habitat: marine. Species Cirrhigaleus australis White et al., 2007 - Southern Mandarin dogfish Distribution: Southeastern Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Cirrhigaleus barbifer Tanaka, 1912 - Mandarin dogfish Distribution: Discontinuous, Pacific, southern Africa, Atlantic. Habitat: marine. GENUS Squalus Linnaeus, 1758 - spiny dogfishes Species Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 - piked dogfish Distribution: Widespread, but absent from the North Pacific. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus acutipinnis Regan, 1908 - acutipinnis spiny dogfish Distribution: Habitat: marine. Species Squalus albicaudus Viana et al., 2016 - Brazilian whitetail dogfish Distribution: Brazil. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus albifrons Last et al., 2007 - Eastern highfin spurdog Distribution: Eastern Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus altipinnis Last et al., 2007 - Western highfin spurdog Distribution: Australia: Western Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus bahiensis Viana et al., 2016 - Northeastern Brazilian dogfish Distribution: Brazil. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus blainville (Risso, 1827) - longnose spurdog Distribution: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, North Atlantic; doubtful from other areas (e.g. Madagascar, Mascarenes, New Caledonia, Japan). Habitat: brackish, marine. Species Squalus brevirostris Tanaka, 1917 - Japanese shortnose spurdog Distribution: Western North Pacific. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus bucephalus Last et al., 2007 - bighead spurdog Distribution: Norfolk Ridge and off New Caledonia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus chloroculus Last et al., 2007 - greeneye spurdog Distribution: Australia: souhern New South Wales to western South Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus crassispinus Last et al., 2007 - fatspine spurdog Distribution: Northwestern Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus cubensis Howell Rivero, 1936 - Cuban dogfish Distribution: Western North Atlantic. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus edmundsi White et al., 2007 - Edmund's spurdog Distribution: Northwestern Australia and eastern Indonesia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus formosus White & Iglésias, 2011 - Formosan spurdog Distribution: Coast of Taiwan and Japan. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus grahami White et al., 2007 - Eastern longnose spurdog Distribution: Eastern Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus griffini Phillipps, 1931 - Northern spiny dogfish Distribution: Southwestern Pacific. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus hemipinnis White et al., 2007 - Indonesian shortsnout dogfish Distribution: Eastern Indonesia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus japonicus Ishikawa, 1908 - Japanese spurdog Distribution: Western North Pacific: Japan and Taiwan. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus lalannei Baranes, 2003 - Seychelles spurdog Distribution: Seychelles. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus lobularis Viana et al., 2016 - Atlantic lobefin dogfish Distribution: Brazil to Uruguay, and Patagonia in Argentina. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus megalops (Macleay, 1881) - shortnose spurdog Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas, discontinuous: southeastern Atlantic and western Indian Ocean: South Africa and East Africa to Madagascar and Mascarenes; southeastern Indian Ocean: southern Australia; southwestern Pacific: southeastern Australia, New Caledonia and Solomon Islands; Western North Pacific: Vietnam to Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus melanurus Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979 - blacktailed spurdog Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus mitsukurii Jordan & Snyder, 1903 - shortspine spurdog Distribution: Cosmopolitan in tropical through temperate seas (including Hawaiian Islands). Habitat: marine. Species Squalus montalbani Whitley, 1931 - Indonesian greeneye spurdog Distribution: Australia, Indonesia, Philippines. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus nasutus Last et al., 2007 - Western longnose spurdog Distribution: Western Australia and Indo-Australian Archipelago to the Philippines. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus notocaudatus Last et al., 2007 - bartail spurdog Distribution: Queensland, Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus quasimodo Viana et al., 2016 - humpback Western dogfish Distribution: Southern Brazil and Brazil to Uruguay border. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus rancureli Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979 - Cyrano spurdog Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia, Vanuatu. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus raoulensis Duffy & Last, 2007 - Kermadec spiny dogfish Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: Kermadec Islands. Habitat: marine. Species Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1855) - spotted spiny dogfish Distribution: North Pacific: Korea and Japan to Russia, the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands south to southern California. Habitat: marine.