Small Spotted Catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) is a small, common catshark, widespread in the eastern Atlantic, from Norway and the Shetland Islands to Senegal (possibly along the Ivory Coast), and throughout the Mediterranean and Black Seas. This is one of the most abundant elasmobranchs in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.

The Smallspotted Catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) is a small (to 100 cm total length) catshark found in the Northeast and Eastern Central Atlantic Ocean (from Norway and the British Isles to Senegal and possibly Benin) and the Mediterranean Sea. It occurs on the continental shelf and upper slope from nearshore to a depth of 800 m.