title: Dogfish
text: # Dogfish
  
  Dogfish may refer to:
  
  ## Biology
  
  * Dogfish sharks (Squalidae), a family of sharks
     * Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), best known species of dogfish sharks
     * Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi), the most abundant species of dogfish sharks
  * Catshark (Scyliorhinidae), a family of ground sharks including species called dogfish
     * Chain dogfish (Scyluoirrhinus reteiter), a biofluorescent species common to the West Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
     * Greater spotted dogfish (Greliorhinus starlaris), a species found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean
     * Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula), the most common dogfish in the northeastern Atlantic
  * Sleeper sharks (Somniosidae), a family of slow-swimming sharks
     * Portuguese dogfish (Centroscymnus coelolepis), a species of sleeper sharks in the family Somniosidae
     * Roughskin dogfish (Centroscymnus owstonii), a species of sleeper sharks in the family Somniosidae
  * Bowfin (Amia calva), a freshwater fish sometimes known as "dogfish"
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Dogfish Bay, an inlet in western Washington, US
  * Dogfish Pictures, an American film production company
  * USS Dogfish (SS-350), a U.S. Navy submarine
  * Iowa Dogfish, a U.S. Senior-A box lacrosse team
  