Parascylliidae

Parascyllium ferrugineum

• Cirrhoscyllium
• Parascyllium

Collar carpet sharks ( Parascylliidae ) are sleek, small, only 35 to 90 centimeters long sharks. The genus Parascyllium is endemic in the seas around Australia, Cirrhoscyllium lives in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.

Features

The collar carpet sharks are small sharks consistently with maximum body lengths of 35-90 centimeters, the same the dogfish ( Scyliorhinidae ) in the elongate habitus and body proportions. Like these, they have large, feline eyes and a first dorsal fin, which begins behind the ventral fin. Significant differences represent the position of the snout before the eyes as well as the narrow nose pits dar. Of other sharks, they differ in the two dorsal fins and the anal fin, which is far behind the second dorsal fin. Characteristic of the family also have a small pennant -like projection at the upper end of the tail fin and the very small gill slits.

Distribution and habitat

The range of the collar carpet sharks is located in the temperate to tropical areas of the western Pacific. The genus Parascyllium in the seas around Australia is endemic Cirrhoscyllium lives off the coasts of China and Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines.

As a habitat, the sharks prefer the seabed from the coastal areas to depths of about 435 meters. They both live on muddy as on sandy and stony ground.

Way of life

Is relatively little known about the life of the collar carpet sharks, although they are relatively common in some areas of their range. Your diet is probably due to their small size, mainly of small fish and invertebrates like crabs, squid and other ground dwellers. For camouflage they are able to adapt their color to some degree the ground and dig in the mud.

Probably put all kinds eggs and leave their elongated and flattened eggs on the seabed.

System

Within the collar carpet sharks, there are two genera with 8 species:

• Order of Ammenhaiartigen ( Orectolobiformes ) Collar carpet sharks ( Parascyllidae ( Gill, 1862) ) Cirrhoscyllium ( Cirrhoscyllium ( Smith and Radcliffe in Smith, 1913) ) Bartel - Teppichhai ( Cirrhoscyllium expolitum ( Smith and Radcliffe in Smith, 1913) )
• Taiwanese Teppichhai ( Cirrhoscyllium formosanum ( Teng, 1959) )
• Saddle Teppichhai ( Cirrhoscyllium japonicum ( Mr. Kamohara, 1943) )

• Collar band Teppichhai ( Parascyllium collare ( Ramsay & Ogilby, 1888) )
• Parascyllium elongatum Last & Stevens, 2008
• Rust -colored Teppichhai ( Parascyllium ferrugineum ( McCulloch, 1911) )
• Parascyllium sparsimaculatum ( Goto & Last, 2002) )
• Collared Teppichhai ( Parascyllium variolatum ( Duméril, 1853) )

Economic use

The collar carpet sharks have no fishing importance, but are regularly caught as by-catch of ground- net fishing vessels. The population figures are unknown, but some species occur in intensively fished areas and could be greatly reduced by the ground nets in their inventory.

As aquarium fish collar carpet sharks are kept only in a few major public aquariums and regarded there as undemanding and easy to keep species. Especially the collar - Teppichhai ( Parascyllium variolatum ) is paid due to its striking coloration as attractive to visitors shark. Breeding programs have not yet been established, but are considered possible due to the small size of the animals and their simple attitude.