SQUALIFORMES

Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, Zootaxa 2667, pp. 1-27 : 3-4

ORDER SQUALIFORMES

Family Echinorhinidae

Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Bramble shark

Family Squalidae

Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 — Piked dogfish Squalus blainvillei (Risso, 1827) — Longnose spurdog

Family Centrophoridae

Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) — Gulper shark

Centrophorus squamosus (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Leafscale gulper shark

Deania calcea (Lowe, 1839) — Birdbeak dogfish

Deania hystricosa ( Garman, 1906) — Rough longnose dogfish

Not mentioned for Galicia by McEachran and Branstetter in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). One record for Galicia based on an unreported specimen from the Galicia Bank.

Family Etmopteridae

* Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758) — Velvet belly lantern shark Etmopterus princeps Collett, 1904 — Great lanternshark Etmopterus pusillus (Lowe, 1839) — Smooth lanternshark

Family Somniosidae

Centroscymnus coelolepis Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864 — Portuguese dogfish.

Centroselachus crepidater (Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864) — Longnose velvet dogfish. Scymnodon ringens Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864 — Knifetooth dogfish Somniosus rostratus (Risso, 1827) — Little sleeper shark

Family Oxynotidae

Oxynotus centrina (Linnaeus, 1758) — Angular roughshark Oxynotus paradoxus Frade, 1929 — Sailfin roughshark

Family Dalatiidae

Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Kitefin shark