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The ornate wobbegong (Orectolobus ornatus) is a species of carpet shark that lives in Australia and possibly other countries in the Western Pacific Ocean. It is coloured golden brown, yellow-green and blueish-grey, and it grows to maximum 120 centimetres (3.9 ft).
Orectolobus reticulatus, the network wobbegong, is a recently described species of carpet shark found in relatively shallow waters off Kimberley and Darwin in north-western Australia. [2] With a known maximum length of only 52.3 centimetres (20.6 in), [ 3 ] it may be the smallest species of wobbegong .
Wobbegong is the common name given to the 12 species of carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae.They are found in shallow temperate and tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean, chiefly around Australia and Indonesia, although one species (the Japanese wobbegong, Orectolobus japonicus) occurs as far north as Japan.
A Florida man recently survived a once-in-a-lifetime encounter of being bitten by a shark for the second time in just over a decade. On Friday, Oct. 25, Cole Taschman was surfing at Florida’s ...
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Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order Orectolobiformes / ɒ r ɛ k ˈ t ɒ l ə b ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /.Sometimes the common name "carpet shark" (given because many species resemble ornately patterned carpets) is used interchangeably with "wobbegong", which is the common name of sharks in the family Orectolobidae.
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