Collared Carpet Shark

Colour light yellowish to reddish brown with six to eight dusky saddles on trunk tail and caudal fin a prominent dark unspotted collar marking around gill region sparse scattered large dark brown spots on sides and fins except for pectoral fins no more than two or three irregular rows of spots on sides.

Collared carpet shark.

None reaches a maximum length greater than 3 feet 91 centimeters. Collared carpet sharks are small. They grow to be no larger than about 3 feet in length and feed on fish and small invertebrates close to the sea floor. 3atm water resistant 12 month international guarantee.

Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order orectolobiformes sometimes the common name carpet shark named so because many species resemble ornately patterned carpets is used interchangeably with wobbegong which is the common name of sharks in the family orectolobidae. The head is generally narrow and somewhat flattened with a short pointed barbel or sensory organ hanging from each nostril. Collared carpetsharks parascylliidae and the bamboosharks hemiscylliidae have rounded highly mobile pectoral and pelvic fins which they use to clamber over the bottom like elongated salamanders with ping pong paddles for legs. The three sharks in the genus cirrhoscyllium also have a pair of fleshy stringlike barbels hanging from the throat.

The collared carpetshark parascyllium collare is a poorly understood species of carpetshark of the family parascylliidae endemic to the waters of eastern australia between latitudes 26 s and 38 s. Pridmore the bottom walking behavior of the. Among the most beautifully coloured and strikingly marked sharks in the order are the necklace carpet shark parascyllium variolatum the ornate wobbegong orectolobus ornatus and the zebra shark. Collared carpetshark parascyllium collare.

The whale shark is not only the largest shark but also by far the largest of all fish averaging about 12 metres 39 feet in length.