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The swell shark is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, from the central California coast to southern Mexico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There is an additional population off the coast of Chile. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It can be found between the depths of 5 and 457 m (16 and 1,499 ft), but is most common between 5 and 37 m (16 and 121 ft).
Cephaloscyllium sufflans Regan, 1921 (balloon shark) Cephaloscyllium umbratile D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903 (blotchy swellshark) Cephaloscyllium variegatum Last, Séret & W. T. White, 2008 (saddled swellshark) Cephaloscyllium ventriosum Garman, 1880 (swellshark) Cephaloscyllium zebrum Last, Séret & W. T. White, 2008 (narrowbar swellshark)
Sharks portal; The reticulated swellshark (Cephaloscyllium fasciatum) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae.The Reticulated swellshark is found in the western Pacific Ocean between latitudes 21° N and 28° S, at depths between 220 and 450 m.
Sharks portal; The Indian swellshark (Cephaloscyllium silasi) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Indian Ocean from Quilon, India and Sauqira Bay, Oman between latitudes 16° N and 10° N, from the surface to 300 m.
This shark is oviparous and females lay pairs of distinctively ridged egg capsules at 20- to 30-day intervals. The eggs hatch after 11–12 months. The eggs hatch after 11–12 months. Harmless and of little commercial interest , many Australian swellsharks are caught incidentally in gillnets and bottom trawls but usually survive to be released ...
A fisherman caught a four-foot shark -- but before he could haul it up (or let it go), the shark was eaten by a Goliath grouper in one jaw-dropping gulp. The incredible video was uploaded by ...
Range of the blotchy swell shark [2] The blotchy swellshark or Japanese swellshark ( Cephaloscyllium umbratile ) is a common species of catshark , belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae . The Blotchy swellshark is found at depths of 90–200 m (300–660 ft) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean , from Japan to Taiwan .
Unprovoked shark attacks are rare: There were just 36 in the U.S. last year, including two in California, one of them fatal, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack ...