Species Detail - Spurdog (Squalus acanthias) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Chondrichthyans Of Ireland Restricted Records".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Squalus acanthias
Spurdog
NBNSYS0000178138
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Threatened Species: OSPAR Convention
sqaca
Linnaeus, 1758
cartilagenous fish (Chondrichthyes)
Species
30
13
6
20/06/1978
06/03/2007
11 January (recorded in 1985)
17 December (recorded in 1990)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Chondrichthyans Of Ireland Restricted Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Spurdog (Squalus acanthias), accessed 12 May 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/263/Species/15579>