Smooth Hound Species

[lofty]

 

 

Food for thought

There are two species ( one gives birth to live young, the other eggs)but it seems the commons don't reach the British isles

Discuss

http://www.fishingfilmsandfacts.co.uk/?page=ssharkalley2

[Rob]

Moderation alert!!!

(I split this discussion away from Tigerfish's species comp as that is for the skipper to record his catch)

 

Rob

[Steve S]

Ah so this is where it's gone.

 

I'm of a view that if the researchers say they are the same species then we treat them as such, they have put the time into investigating it and us anglers just put our time into catching them.

 

I've always catch them using the same methods, but more starry ones than plain. Seems to me it's a bit like hair colour in humans, we still go under the same species name, there are however a few I could name who I could make a case for being Neanderthal...

 

Steve

[lofty]

This was a response on Angrys Afloat

 

Not so though some unstarred ones are starrys so markings can't be relied on really. However, if you open up the females when pregnant they're different internally: Starrys are ovoviviparous (eggs hatch inside the mother), Commons are viviparous (give birth to live young. SharkTrust factsheets are a great resource on the shark species found here.As to rockling, I've not had one since I was 15 and they weren't common then. Anyway, 2 added!

[Matt]

I dont think anyones disputing there are two species just only one is found in British waters.