Cobblers Wobbegong Shark

The Cobblers Wobbegong is also known as Cobblers carpet shark.
 

• COBBLERS WOBBEGONG SHARK
  
  Scientific Name.... Sutorectus Tentaculatu
  Family Name...... Orectolobidae
   

• General Information: This species, unlike the other wobbegongs, has large, rounded tubercles all over its head and body throughout its life (the western wobbegong has dorsal tubercles as a juvenile). Cobbler's wobbegong also has a low first dorsal fin that originates before the mid base of the pelvic fins. Little is known of its biology.

• Size: Their average size is about 3 feet long.

• Teeth: These species have two rows of enlarged fanglike teeth in its upper jaw and three rows in its lower jaw.

• Color: Cobbler wobbegongs are a pale brown with jagged-edged broad dark brown saddles and has numerous small black spots scattered on the body and fins.

• Feeding Habits: They feed on large shrimps and cephalopods.

• Social Behaviour: They are a solitary species and is often found hiding in reef caves and crevices.

• Habitat | Migration | Distribution: Southern and Western Australia. prefers rocky bottoms and reefs edges with plentiful sponge and ascidian growth. It is most often encountered in turbid conditions.

• Life Span: Unknown.

• Reproduction: They are ovoviviparous. Numbers not known.

• Cobblers Wobbegong Shark Attacks: Harmless

• Population Report: Unknown.