Cosmopolitan Spurdog
Squalus megalops
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Family
- Squalidae
- Genus
- Squalus
Where to Find
Found in 16 diving areas across 6 countries and 3 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 174 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- South Australia, Australia - 4 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 505 records
- Victoria, Australia - 4 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 25 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 44 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 5 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 7 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 617 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 9 records