Australian Carpet Shark

Many species have barbels.

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. It has dark corrugated saddles that are bordered by rows of small dark spots. 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. Sometimes the common name carpet shark is used interchangeably with wobbegong which is the common name of sharks in the family orectolobidae.

Cite this page as. Carpet sharks have five gill slits two spineless dorsal fins and a small mouth that does not extend past the eyes. The banded carpet shark is a distinctively coloured species. 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. Carpet shark order orectolobiformes any of about 40 species of sharks possessing mottled patterns on the body that are evocative of carpet designs. 1979 1986 harpercollins publishers 1998 2000 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2012. This nocturnal shark is rarely seen by divers.