Real carpet sharks
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The real carpet sharks or wobbegongs ( Orectolobus ) are a genus of sharks with ten species. They are strongly flattened dorsoventrally and usually clearly patterned. They wear membranous rags and barbels around their mouths .
Way of life
The real carpet sharks inhabit the shallow water areas and coral reefs of warm, mostly tropical waters from Japan to Southeast Asia to the Australian coasts. There they dig into the muddy seabed during the day or hide in reef crevices and caves. Their young give birth to these sharks alive. The animals feed mainly on bottom-living fish and crustaceans, squids, other bottom-living invertebrates and sea anemones.
species
The genus of the real carpet sharks is currently undergoing intensive systematic processing, so that statements about the internal relationships cannot be made. With the western carpet shark ( O. hutchinsi ) described scientifically in 2006 , the O. floridus O. reticulatus and O. parvimaculatus described in 2008 as well as the Orectolobus leptolineatus described in 2010, five new species have been described in recent years, described during the 1840 and as a synonym for O. halei regarded ornamented carpet shark again in 2006 as a separate species.
- Flower ornament carpet shark ( Orectolobus floridus Last & Chidlow, 2008 )
- Orectolobus halei Whitley, 1940
- Western carpet shark ( Orectolobus hutchinsi Last, Chidlow & Compagno, 2006 )
- Japanese carpet shark ( Orectolobus japonicus Regan, 1906 )
- Orectolobus leptolineatus Last, Pogonoski & White, 2010
- Common carpet shark or wobbegong ( Orectolobus maculatus (Bonnaterre, 1788) )
- Ornament carpet shark ( Orectolobus ornatus (De Vis, 1883) )
- Small-spotted carpet shark ( Orectolobus parvimaculatus Last & Chidlow, 2008 )
- Orectolobus reticulatus Last, Pogonoski & White, 2008
- Northern carpet shark ( Orectolobus wardi Whitley, 1939 )
supporting documents
- ↑ Peter R. Last, Justin A. Chidlow, Leonard JV Compagno: A new wobbegong shark, Orectolobus hutchinsi n. Sp. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 1239, 2006; Pp. 35-48. ( Full text )
- ↑ a b Peter R. Last, Justin A. Chidlow: Two new wobbegong sharks, Orectolobus floridus sp. nov. and O. parvimaculatus sp. nov. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae), from southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 1673, 2008; Pp. 49-67. ( Full text ; PDF; 15 kB)
- ^ Last, PR, JJ Pogonoski and WT White, 2008. Orectolobus reticulatus sp. nov., a new wobbegong shark (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from the continental shelf of Northeastern Australia. In Last, PR, White, WT & Pogonoski, JJ: Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 22.
- ↑ PR Last, JJ Pogonoski, WT White: A new wobbegong shark, Orectolobus leptolineatus sp. nov., from the western Central Pacific. In: PP Last, WT White, JJ Pogonoski (Ed.): Descriptions of new sharks and rays from Borneo. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper no. 32; Pp. 1-16. ( Full text ; PDF; 7.6 MB)
- ↑ Charlie Huveneers: Redescription of two species of wobbegongs (Chondrichthyes: Orectolobidae) with elevation of Orectolobus halei Whitley 1940 to species level. Zootaxa 1284, 2006; Pp. 29-51. ( Full text ; PDF; 18 kB)
literature
- LJV Compagno : Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalog of shark species known to date. Volume 2. Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalog for Fishery Purposes. No. 1, Vol. 2. FAO Rome 2001 ( Complete PDF , Orectolobidae )
- Leonard Compagno, Marc Dando, Sarah Fowler: Sharks of the World . Princeton University Press , Princeton and Oxford 2005, ISBN 978-0-691-12072-0 , pp. 161-164.
Web links
- Real carpet sharks on Fishbase.org (English)