Saddle Carpet Shark
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Saddle Carpet Shark ( Cirrhoscyllium japonicum ) |
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The saddle carpet shark ( Cirrhoscyllium japonicum ) is a real shark from the collar carpet shark family . It lives off the southern and eastern Pacific coasts of the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku .
features
The species is very elongated and slender and reaches a length of 48 cm. She wears nine clearly raised saddles on her back, which give her its name and the front two of which fork in a semicircle on the sides. She wears barbels on her neck .
Way of life
The carpet saddle shark lives on the Pacific continental shelf off southern Japan at depths between 250 and 290 m. Little is known about its diet. It is oviparous and harmless to humans.
Web links
- Saddle Carpet Shark on Fishbase.org (English)
- Cirrhoscyllium japonicum inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Tanaka, S., Nakaya, K., Wang, Y. & White, W., 2007. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
literature
- Compagno , Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World , Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2 , see also [1]