Rusty carpetshark

Rust -colored Teppichhai ( Parascyllium ferrugineum )

The rust -colored Teppichhai ( ferrugineum Parascyllium, also Parascyllium multimaculatum ) is a real one shark from the family of the collar carpet sharks. He lives off the southern coast of Australia and around Tasmania.

Features

The species is very elongated and slender, and reaches a length of 80 cm. She wears an unobtrusive, darker color in the form of a neck band at the level of the gills, sometimes with three or four black spots. The body is gray-brown with large dark brown spots on the fins.

Way of life

The rust -colored Teppichhai lives on the continental shelf at depths up to 150 m near the bottom, in coastal reefs and estuaries. He hides in caves during the day and hunts at night -dwelling crustaceans and mollusks. It is oviparous and lays eggs in summer in yellow envelopes with tentacles from. For fishing it is of no interest, but occasionally can be found as by-catch.