Ornate wobbegong

Ornate wobbegong
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Orectolobiformes
Family:	Orectolobidae
Genus:	Orectolobus
Species:	O. ornatus
Binomial name
Orectolobus ornatus (De Vis, 1883)
Confirmed range of the ornate wobbegong

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The ornate wobbegong, Orectolobus ornatus, is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, found in the western Pacific Ocean around eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, between latitudes 1° N and 34° S (around Sydney). As yet, only Australian populations are known to certainly belong to this species, and it is possible populations in other countries actually represent a separate, undescribed species. The maximum reported length of the ornate wobbegong is 1.17 metres (3.8 ft). Reports of a larger maximum size is due to confusion with the recently revalidated banded wobbegong, which for the most part is found further south than the ornate wobbegong.

Reproduction is ovoviviparous.

See also

• List of sharks

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Orectolobus ornatus" in FishBase. may 2006 version.
• Huveneers, C. (2006). Redescription of two species of wobbegongs (Chondrichthyes: Orectolobidae) with elevation of Orectolobus halei Whitley 1940 to species level. Zootaxa 1284: 29-51.