Tasselled wobbegong
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| Tasselled wobbegong | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Orectolobiformes |
| Family: | Orectolobidae |
| Genus: | Eucrossorhinus Regan, 1908 |
| Species: | E. dasypogon |
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| Eucrossorhinus dasypogon (Bleeker, 1867) |
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The tasselled wobbegong, Eucrossorhinus dasypogon, is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, found in the western Pacific Ocean between latitudes 1° N and 23° S. It reaches a length of 1.25 m.
Reproduction is ovoviviparous.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Eucrossorhinus dasypogon" in FishBase. may 2006 version.
