Collared Carpet Shark

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Collared carpet shark.

Collared carpetshark parascyllium collare. 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. In recent experiments by p a. 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.

Pridmore the bottom walking behavior of the. Found solely in the shallow waters of the western pacific ocean the collared carpet shark is a small slender shark with distinctive cat like eyes and spotted bodies sometimes with a dark band on the head just behind the eyes. They grow to be no larger than about 3 feet in length and feed on fish and small invertebrates close to the sea floor. The head is generally narrow and somewhat flattened with a short pointed barbel or sensory organ hanging from each nostril.

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. The three sharks in the genus cirrhoscyllium also have a pair of fleshy stringlike barbels hanging from the throat. 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. None reaches a maximum length greater than 3 feet 91 centimeters.

Collared carpet sharks are small.