Orectolobus
Wobbegong
The Real carpet sharks or wobbegongs ( Orectolobus ) are a genus of sharks with eight species. You are strongly dorsoventrally flattened and usually clearly patterned. To the foot wear membranous lobe and barbels.
Way of life
The Real carpet sharks inhabit the shallow waters and coral reefs, warm, most of tropical waters from Japan to Southeast Asia up to the Australian shores. They dig during the day in the muddy ocean floor or hiding in Riffspalten and caves. Your kittens bring these sharks born alive. The animals feed mainly on benthic fish and crabs, squid, other benthic invertebrates and sea anemones.
Species
The genus of the Real Carpet sharks is currently in an intensive systematic processing, so that statements about the internal relationships can not be made. With the Western Teppichhai 2006 scientifically described (O. hutchinsi ), the O. described in 2008 floridus and O. parvimaculatus and leptolineatus the Orectolobus 2010 described four new species have been described in recent years, while the observed and described in 1840 as a synonym for ornamental Teppichhai O. halei was redefined in 2006 as an independent species.
- Flowers ornament Teppichhai ( Orectolobus floridus ( Last & Chidlow, 2008) )
- Orectolobus halei ( Whitley, 1940)
- Western Teppichhai ( Orectolobus hutchinsi (load, Chidlow & Compagno, 2006) )
- Japanese Teppichhai ( Orectolobus japonicus ( Regan, 1906) )
- Orectolobus leptolineatus (load, Pogonoski & White, 2010)
- Common Teppichhai or Wobbegong ( Orectolobus maculatus ( Bonnaterre, 1788) )
- Ornament Teppichhai ( Orectolobus ornatus ( De Vis, 1883) )
- Kleingepunkteter Teppichhai ( Orectolobus parvimaculatus ( Last & Chidlow, 2008) )
- Northern Teppichhai ( Orectolobus wardi ( Whitley, 1939) )