Collared Carpet Shark

None reaches a maximum length greater than 3 feet 91 centimeters.

Collared carpet shark.

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. Collared carpet sharks are small. 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. The head is generally narrow and somewhat flattened with a short pointed barbel or sensory organ hanging from each nostril.

Collared carpet shark series high precision quartz movement with the latest breakthrough technology. Collared carpetshark parascyllium collare. 3atm water resistant 12 month international guarantee. The three sharks in the genus cirrhoscyllium also have a pair of fleshy stringlike barbels hanging from the throat.

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 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. In recent experiments by p a. They grow to be no larger than about 3 feet in length and feed on fish and small invertebrates close to the sea floor.

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.