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n. - Spiny dogfishes.

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  • Our most recent ones where we had the escape for it back in the '30s, the Squalus (ph) operation.
  • Coal fish (Pollachius virens; new ecords of spawning fish), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), spurdog (Squalus acanthias)
  • The predorsal spines do not at this stage show the protective knobs found in the foetus of Squalus, though they may be a later foetal development.
  • According to the people the Nkonje (Squalus) here is not a dangerous “sea-tiger” unless a man wear red or carry copper bracelets; it is caught with hooks and eaten as by the
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