Australian Carpet Shark

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

Australian carpet shark.

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. 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.

Sometimes the common name carpet shark is used interchangeably with wobbegong which is the common name of sharks in the family orectolobidae. Many species have barbels. The banded carpet shark is a distinctively coloured species. Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order orectolobiformes.

They are found in all oceans but are concentrated in the indo pacific and australian regions. The species is endemic to australia. Cite this page as. Many species are large but they are not considered.