Australian Carpet Shark

It has dark corrugated saddles that are bordered by rows of small dark spots.

Australian carpet shark.

This nocturnal shark is rarely seen by divers. Cite this page as. The varied carpetshark is an elongate tubular fish that has a broad black band with small white spots around the gill region. A slender greyish brown catshark with a pale underside 6 7 faint slightly darker saddles along the back the first at the gill openings darker brown spots on the head body and fins including more than 6 spots on the side between the dorsal fins.

Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order orectolobiformes. Carpet shark order orectolobiformes any of about 40 species of sharks possessing mottled patterns on the body that are evocative of carpet designs. Many species have barbels. An australian carpet shark orectolobus maculatus with brown and white skin word origin for wobbegong from a native australian language collins english dictionary complete unabridged 2012 digital edition william collins sons co.

Carpet sharks have five gill slits two spineless dorsal fins and a small mouth that does not extend past the eyes. Many species are large but they are not considered. Sometimes the common name carpet shark is used interchangeably with wobbegong which is the common name of sharks in the family orectolobidae. They are found in all oceans but are concentrated in the indo pacific and australian regions.