carpet sharks
orectolobiformes latin

Wobbegong is the common name given to the 12 species of carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae.

Orectolobus is a genus of carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae.

Because of this striking pattern, wobbegongs and their close relatives are often referred to as carpet sharks.

Carpet sharks have two dorsal fins, without spines, and a small mouth that is forward of the eyes.

The Parascylliidae, or collared carpet sharks are a family of sharks.

Carpet sharks are another small order of sharks, so called because many members have ornate patterns reminiscent of carpets.

Order Orectolobiformes (carpet sharks)

Carpet sharks (Orectolobiformes)

Ginglymostomatidae is a cosmopolitan family of carpet sharks, containing the three monotypic genera of nurse sharks.

Family Parascylliidae (Collared carpet sharks)

Hemiscylliidae is a family of sharks in the order Orectolobiformes, commonly known as longtail carpet sharks or bamboo sharks.

The bamboo sharks (Hemiscylliidae) and the zebra shark (Stegostomatidae) lay eggs on the bottom, while the other carpet sharks give live birth.

Bottom-dwelling sharks such as catsharks and carpet sharks have tails with long upper lobes and virtually no lower lobe.

Bullhead, mackerel, and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes).

They are commonly referred to as the carpet sharks, including zebra sharks, nurse sharks, wobbegongs and the largest of all fishes, the whale sharks.

The aquarium includes the only sand tiger shark in Poland, as well other fishes including, Arabian carpet sharks, Zebrasoma species, yellow tang, and other reef species.

Akaimia is an extinct genus of carpet sharks which existed in Ogrodzieniec near Zawiercie, southern Poland, during the middle or late Jurassic (Callovian or Oxfordian age).

Compagno, Leonard (2002) Sharks of the World: Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks Volume 2, FAO Species Catalogue, Rome.

Goto's 2002 morphological analysis of the carpet sharks showed the genus Hemiscyllium as a polytomy, meaning that the phylogenetic relationships between the epaulette shark and its sister species could not be resolved.

The blind shark (Brachaelurus waddi) is one of two species of carpet sharks in the family Brachaeluridae, along with the bluegrey carpetshark (Heteroscyllium colcloughi), and the only extant member of its genus.

Orectolobiformes There are seven families in this order.

The Brachaeluridae, or blind sharks, are a small family of sharks in the order Orectolobiformes.

Order Orectolobiformes (carpet sharks)

The carpet sharks are an order, Orectolobiformes, of sharks, so called because many members have ornate patterns reminiscent of carpets.

Hemiscylliidae is a family of sharks in the order Orectolobiformes, commonly known as longtail carpet sharks or bamboo sharks.

The largest living cartilaginous fish, of the order Orectolobiformes, is the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), of the world's tropical oceans.

It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is also known as the carpet shark (which usually refers to the entire order Orectolobiformes).