Australian Carpet Shark

Sometimes the common name carpet shark is used interchangeably with wobbegong which is the common name of sharks in the family orectolobidae.

Australian carpet shark.

The varied carpetshark is an elongate tubular fish that has a broad black band with small white spots around the gill region. Many species have barbels. Cite this page as. They are found in all oceans but are concentrated in the indo pacific and australian regions.

1979 1986 harpercollins publishers 1998 2000 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2012. The banded carpet shark is a distinctively coloured species. It has dark corrugated saddles that are bordered by rows of small dark spots. Carpet sharks have five gill slits two spineless dorsal fins and a small mouth that does not extend past the eyes.

Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order orectolobiformes. 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 shark order orectolobiformes any of about 40 species of sharks possessing mottled patterns on the body that are evocative of carpet designs. 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.