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title: "Philippine Spurdog"
description: "Squalus montalbani — Fish. Squalus montalbani, the Philippine spurdog or Indonesian greeneye spurdog, is a relatively large species of dogfish shark native to waters off the coast of Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/philippine-spurdog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Philippine Spurdog

> Squalus montalbani — Fish. Squalus montalbani, the Philippine spurdog or Indonesian greeneye spurdog, is a relatively large species of dogfish shark native to waters off the coast of Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

- Scientific name: *Squalus montalbani*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 12
- Wikidata: [Q5016962](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5016962)
- iNaturalist taxon: [113040](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/113040)

## Names

- en: Philippine Spurdog
- de: Indonesischer Grünaugen-Dornhai

## Summary

Squalus montalbani, the Philippine spurdog or Indonesian greeneye spurdog, is a relatively large species of dogfish shark native to waters off the coast of Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.  The species was identified in 1912 from a specimen caught off the coast of Luzon Island, and has been both bycatch and a targeted species in fisheries since.  Its taxonomy is complex, having been renamed in 1931, being misidentified as a type of shortspine spurdog, then being revived as a species in 2007.
It is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to past and present…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squalus_montalbani

## Photo

![Philippine Spurdog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/philippine-spurdog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Smith, Hugh M. · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Squalus-montalbani-sideview.png

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/philippine-spurdog?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).