Bartel Carpet Shark
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| Smith & Radcliffe , 1913 |
The Bartel Carpet Shark ( Cirrhoscyllium expolitum ) is a small real shark from the collar carpet shark family . He lives in the South China Sea between the coast of China and Luzon , in the Gulf of Tonkin and off Vietnam . There have been sightings off Okinawa , but these may be based on confusion with the saddle carpet shark ( Cirrhoscyllium japonicum ).
features
The species is very elongated and slender, and reaches a length of about 33 cm. She wears barbels on her throat, which gave her the German name, and six to ten dark saddle marks on her back. It has 154 vertebrae, 46 of which are tail vertebrae.
Way of life
The collar carpet shark lives on the continental shelf of the South China Sea above the bottom at depths between 180 and 190 m. Little is known about its diet. It is oviparous and harmless to humans.
Web links
- Bartel Carpet Shark on Fishbase.org (English)
- Cirrhoscyllium expolitum in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.1. Posted by: Nakaya, K., Wang, Y., Tanaka, S. & White, W., 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
literature
- Compagno , Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World , Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2 , (PDF)