Common name of Squalus cubensis
 
Common name Puppyshark dogfish
Language English
Type Vernacular
Official trade name No
Rank 2 - (Preferred common name (unique))
Country Puerto Rico
Locality
Ref. Zaneveld, J.S., 1983
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core non-fish animal
1st modifier non-fish animal
2nd modifier non-fish animal
Remarks 'shark', of obscure origins but appears to have been introduced to English in the late 1560s by members of Sir John Hawkins' expedition (a ballad of 1569 recorded 'There is no proper name for [the fish] that I know, but that certain men of Captain Hawkins' doth call it a shark'), but it is not known where they got it from. A resemblance to Austrian dialect 'schirk', i.e., sturgeon has been noted (p. 471 in Ref. 11979).
 
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