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BANDED WOBBEGONG FACTS |
Description
Margins of head with several branched dermal 'tentacles'. Several broad diffuse dark brown bands with corrugated edges across the head and upper body; scattered irregular pale spots covering the upper body, but no distinctive white rings.
Matures at 80 cm and gives birth to 2-16 pups in spring after a 10-11 month gestation period. Feeds mainly on fishes and cephalopods.
Author credit: Jeff Johnson / Queensland Museum
Habitat
Coastal to offshore rocky or coral reefs, often among thick stands of brown macroalgae.
Food
Carnivore
Range
Port Douglas, Qld to Sydney, NSW.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Chondrichthyes | | Order: | Orectolobiformes | | Family: | Orectolobidae | | Genus: | Orectolobus | | Species: | ornatus | | Common Name: | Banded Wobbegong |
Relatives in same Genus
Spotted Wobbegong (O. maculatus)
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