houndfish

/ ˈhaʊndˌfɪʃ /

noun

a name given to various small sharks or dogfish See also nursehound

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In July, a man fishing off Nantucket caught a houndfish, a warm-water species that may never have been caught before along the Massachusetts shore.

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The Boylans would soon learn Terrence had hooked a houndfish, a warm-water species that may never have been caught before along the Massachusetts shore.

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According to an online database of observed sea life maintained by Duke University, houndfish, the species caught by Boylan, have been spotted only twice north of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and never in Massachusetts.

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The houndfish is just the latest example of a subtropical species finding its way to the Massachusetts coast.

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“I was also a little bit hesitant to send the tooth in because for a minute I thought they would come back and tell me I’d been bitten by a mackerel or a houndfish – something really humiliating.”