Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 19, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 90
Additional Source Text:
The donor is identified as from Cape May, N.J.
Notes:
Probably the spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish (Squalus acanthias), one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Spiny dogfish
Current Scientific Name
Squalus acanthias
