What dead sea creature is this?

What dead sea creature is this?

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Simbu

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1,783 posts

173 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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I'm pretty sure this is a young shark of some kind, does anyone know what species?

Found on a Pembrokeshire beach yesterday!


Silent1

19,761 posts

234 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Dogfish?

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Yep that's a Dogfish, without scale it's hard to tell, but they don't get much bigger than that.

They're a type of shark and incredibly prevalent off the coast of Wales - basically if you go boat / beach fishing off near there - if you're lucky enough to catch 10 things, 8 of them will be Dogfish.

The Beaver King

6,095 posts

194 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Silent1 said:
Dogfish?
Yeah, looks like a Dogfish.

80quattro

1,724 posts

194 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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The Beaver King said:
Silent1 said:
Dogfish?
Yeah, looks like a Dogfish.
I reckon it's a dogfish.

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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I reckon it's a Rock Salmon wink

BoRED S2upid

19,644 posts

239 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Smoothhound. Head is more pointy that a dogfish and it's got more fins towards the end of its tail.

Eric Mc

121,784 posts

264 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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It's not dead.

It's stunned.

It's pining for the mudflats of Morecombe Bay.

JRewing

17,540 posts

178 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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It wouldn't be doing much more growing at that size. It's probably fully grown.

Don't mess with it - from experience the skin can do a bit of cutting itself!

Grandpad58

12,543 posts

180 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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80quattro said:
The Beaver King said:
Silent1 said:
Dogfish?
Yeah, looks like a Dogfish.
I reckon it's a dogfish.
I say a Dogfish.

Konrod

866 posts

227 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Yep, a Dogfish. You won't find one in the Dead Sea though as it's too salty for most creatures.

getmecoat

Simbu

Original Poster:

1,783 posts

173 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Thanks for the replies!

Apart from giving it a cursory prod with my foot we didn't touch it. It looked like the seagulls had already had a go at it - there was a gaping hole where its gills used to be.

Marvib

528 posts

145 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Grandpad58 said:
80quattro said:
The Beaver King said:
Silent1 said:
Dogfish?
Yeah, looks like a Dogfish.
I reckon it's a dogfish.
I say a Dogfish.
Your all wrong it's a catfish wink

Triumph Man

8,670 posts

167 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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80quattro said:
The Beaver King said:
Silent1 said:
Dogfish?
Yeah, looks like a Dogfish.
I reckon it's a dogfish.
Didier Dogfishba?

Telomerase

164 posts

149 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Scyliorhinus canicula

Silent1

19,761 posts

234 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Marvib said:
Your all wrong it's a catfish wink
It's catshark you 'tard!

digger the goat

2,811 posts

144 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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BoRED S2upid said:
Smoothhound. Head is more pointy that a dogfish and it's got more fins towards the end of its tail.
+1

paintman

7,669 posts

189 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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It isn't a smoothhound. Dorsal fin much too far back.
They look like this:
http://www.sharktrust.org/en/factsheets/42/common-...

Its a dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula aka catshark, amongst other names)
http://www.sharktrust.org/en/factsheets/47/smallsp...



Edited by paintman on Tuesday 22 April 20:55

Graculus

143 posts

125 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Lesser Spotted Dogfish as it's commonly known. I've caught approximately eleventy million of them over the years without ever once targeting them.

If you don't handle them properly they can give you horrible skin abrasions as they wrap their tails around your wrist or forearm. One shark where the tail is more dangerous than the pointy end!

As a kid I remember commercial fishermen drying dogfish skin outdoors to then use as a sort of sandpaper.