What does carpet shark mean?

Carpet shark is any shark of the family Orectolobidae, found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters, having mottled skin and fleshy lobes along the sides of the head.

They are a bizarre species and as their name implies, they lie like a carpet on the sea bed which they are patterned like and lie in wait for a little morsel to pass by; then after sometime they gobble it up and go back to being motionless. The patterns of these sharks vary on what region they are from as different regions consist of different se bottoms but they are not chameleonic. Most surprisingly this group also includes nurse & zebra sharks which are also slow moving bottom dwellers and they suck food out of crevices. The whale shark also falls into the group as it is related to the zebra and nurse sharks and rounding out the group are the bamboo sharks. These sharks are usually small bottom feeders much like the nurse shark in body shape and an interesting feature is that some use their fins to literally walk along the bottom.

Epaulette Shark

They are commonly found in tropical Australian waters and are the most accessible for reef waders and snorkelers compared to other sharks. During the day they hide under ledges and large sections of coral rubble, at times in just a few inches of water while at night they can be found in the shallows foraging for small invertebrates. If not harassed, this shark is harmless and will happily go about its business among waders. These sharks are egg-layers with juveniles 15 cm long growing to an adult size of one metre and the distinctive colour pattern easily distinguishes this shark from other similar-shaped carpet sharks.

Collared Carpet Sharks

They are slender bottom dwelling sharks with a small mouth; two spineless rear set dorsal fins, both pelvic and anal fins that have usually a distinct pattern of spots. They also have a mouth well in front of their eyes and their nostrils are connected to their mouth with a groove that is partly covered by a flap of skin called the internasal flap.

Varied Carpet Shark

It is commonly found along the coasts of all southern States of Australia and is hard to confuse with any other shark because of its distinctive black 'collar', which is covered in a dense pattern of small white spots. It is found by snorkelers at shallow depths but it also occurs in much deeper water and snoozes in the sheltered crevice of a rocky reef or twines itself amongst seagrasses.

These are some types of carpet sharks and many are there.

 
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