Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 27, 1821
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 113
Additional Source Text:
The donor was "steward of the [ward?] Hampton."
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. Wikipedia
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
