Australian Carpet Shark

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.

Australian carpet shark. It has dark corrugated saddles that are bordered by rows of small dark spots. The varied carpetshark is an elongate tubular fish that has a broad black band with small white spots around the gill region. The banded carpet shark is a distinctively coloured species. Carpet shark order orectolobiformes any of about 40 species of sharks possessing mottled patterns on the body that are evocative of carpet designs.

Cite this page as. 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. Many species have barbels. This nocturnal shark is rarely seen by divers.

1979 1986 harpercollins publishers 1998 2000 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2012. Many species are large but they are not considered. They are found in all oceans but are concentrated in the indo pacific and australian regions. Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order orectolobiformes.