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91 relations: Ambush predator, Ancient Greek, Aru Islands, Australia, Barbel (anatomy), Basal (phylogenetics), Blast fishing, Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Brownbanded bamboo shark, Bundaberg, Camouflage, Carpet shark, Cephalopod, Cestoda, Charles Tate Regan, Chondrichthyes, Cleaner shrimp, Cobbler wobbegong, Common name, Continental shelf, Coral, Coral reef, Crustacean, Demersal fish, Dorsal fin, Dwarf spotted wobbegong, Ecotourism, Embryo, Eyespot (mimicry), Family (biology), Fish, Fish fin, Fishery, Fishkeeping, Floral banded wobbegong, Genus, Gilbert Percy Whitley, Gill slit, Gulf wobbegong, Habitat destruction, Holocentrinae, Home range, Ichthyology, Indonesia, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Intertidal zone, Invertebrate, Island, Japanese wobbegong, Least-concern species, ..., Leather, Life history theory, Malaysia, Mating, Mitochondrial DNA, Molecular clock, Morphology (biology), Mosaic, Myripristinae, Near-threatened species, New Guinea, Ningaloo Coast, Nocturnality, Northern wobbegong, Nuclear DNA, Orectolobus, Orectolobus hutchinsi, Ornate wobbegong, Osteichthyes, Ovoviviparity, Papua New Guinea, Parasitism, Pelvic fin, Phylogenetics, Pieter Bleeker, Sexual maturity, Shoaling and schooling, Speciation, Species, Spiracle, Spotted wobbegong, Stenopus hispidus, Sweeper, Synapomorphy and apomorphy, Synonym (taxonomy), Tubercle, Waigeo, Water pollution, Wobbegong, Year, Yolk. Expand index (41 more) »
Ambush predator
Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals or other organisms, such as some nematophagous fungi and carnivorous plants, that capture or trap prey by stealth or by strategy (typically not conscious strategy), rather than by speed or by strength.
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Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.
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Aru Islands
The Aru Islands Regency (also Aroe Islands, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) are a group of about ninety-five low-lying islands in the Maluku province of eastern Indonesia.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Barbel (anatomy)
In fish anatomy and turtle anatomy, a barbel is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Blast fishing
Blast fishing or dynamite fishing is the practice of using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection.
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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, is one of several species of cleaner wrasses found on coral reefs from Eastern Africa and the Red Sea to French Polynesia.
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Brownbanded bamboo shark
The brownbanded bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium punctatum, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found in the Indo-West Pacific from Japan to northern Australia, between latitudes 34° N and 26° S, to depths of.
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Bundaberg
Bundaberg is a city near the south-east coast of Queensland, Australia, situated on the Burnett River.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).
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Carpet shark
Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order Orectolobiformes.
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Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.
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Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm (Platyhelminthes) phylum, commonly known as tapeworms.
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Charles Tate Regan
Charles Tate Regan FRS (1 February 1878 – 12 January 1943) was a British ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century.
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Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes (from Greek χονδρ- chondr- 'cartilage', ἰχθύς ichthys 'fish') is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.
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Cleaner shrimp
Cleaner shrimp is a common name for a number of swimming decapod crustaceans, that clean other organisms of parasites.
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Cobbler wobbegong
The cobbler wobbegong, Sutorectus tentaculatus, is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, the only member of the genus Sutorectus.
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Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, trivial name, trivial epithet, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; this kind of name is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is Latinized.
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Continental shelf
The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea.
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Coral
Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.
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Coral reef
Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Demersal fish
Demersal fish live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).
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Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.
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Dwarf spotted wobbegong
The dwarf spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus parvimaculatus) is a recently described carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae.
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Ecotourism
Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.
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Embryo
An embryo is an early stage of development of a multicellular diploid eukaryotic organism.
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Eyespot (mimicry)
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fish fin
Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.
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Fishery
Generally, a fishery is an entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery.
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Fishkeeping
Fishkeeping is a popular hobby, practiced by aquarists, concerned with keeping fish in a home aquarium or garden pond.
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Floral banded wobbegong
The floral banded wobbegong (Orectolobus floridus) is a recently described species of carpet shark found in the Indian Ocean off southwestern Australia.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Gilbert Percy Whitley
Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years.
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Gill slit
Gill slits are individual openings to gills, i.e., multiple gill arches, which lack a single outer cover.
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Gulf wobbegong
The Gulf wobbegong or banded wobbegong (Orectolobus halei) is a species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, found in southern Australia between Southport, Queensland and Norwegian Bay, Western Australia.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.
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Holocentrinae
Holocentrinae is a subfamily of Holocentridae containing 40 recognized species and one proposed species.
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Home range
A home range is the area in which an animal lives and moves on a periodic basis.
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Ichthyology
Ichthyology (from Greek: ἰχθύς, ikhthys, "fish"; and λόγος, logos, "study"), also known as fish science, is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore and seashore and sometimes referred to as the littoral zone, is the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide (in other words, the area between tide marks).
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Japanese wobbegong
The Japanese wobbegong (Orectolobus japonicas) is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae of the wobbegong family, found in the tropical western Pacific Ocean from Japan and Korea to Viet Nam and the Philippines, between latitudes 43 and 6°N.
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Least-concern species
A least concern (LC) species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated but not qualified for any other category.
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Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
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Life history theory
Life history theory is an analytical frameworkVitzthum, V. (2008).
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.
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Mating
In biology, mating (or mateing in British English) is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms, usually for the purposes of sexual reproduction.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Molecular clock
The molecular clock is a technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged.
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Mosaic
A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.
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Myripristinae
Myripristinae is a subfamily of the Holocentridae fish.
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Near-threatened species
A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as that may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future, although it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.
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Ningaloo Coast
The Ningaloo Coast is a World Heritage Site located in the north west coastal region of Western Australia.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Northern wobbegong
The northern wobbegong (Orectolobus wardi) is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, found in the western Pacific Ocean around Australia, between latitudes 9° S to 26° S. It reaches a length of 63 cm.
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Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA, or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid (nDNA), is the DNA contained within the nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
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Orectolobus
Orectolobus is a genus of carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae.
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Orectolobus hutchinsi
Orectolobus hutchinsi, the western wobbegong, is a species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae.
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Ornate wobbegong
The ornate wobbegong (Orectolobus ornatus) is a species of 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 (near Sydney).
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Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage.
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Ovoviviparity
Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, or ovivipary, is a mode of reproduction in animals in which embryos that develop inside eggs remain in the mother's body until they are ready to hatch.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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Parasitism
In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
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Pelvic fin
Pelvic fins are paired fins located on the ventral surface of fish.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.
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Pieter Bleeker
Pieter Bleeker (July 10, 1819, Zaandam – January 24, 1878, The Hague) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
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Sexual maturity
Sexual maturity is the capability of an organism to reproduce.
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Shoaling and schooling
In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling (pronounced), and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling (pronounced). In common usage, the terms are sometimes used rather loosely.
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Speciation
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Spiracle
Spiracles are openings on the surface of some animals, which usually lead to respiratory systems.
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Spotted wobbegong
The spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus maculatus) is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, found in the eastern Indian Ocean from Western Australia to southern Queensland, between latitudes 20°S to 40°S.
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Stenopus hispidus
Stenopus hispidus is a shrimp-like decapod crustacean belonging to the infraorder Stenopodidea.
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Sweeper
Sweepers are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciform fish of the family Pempheridae.
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Synapomorphy and apomorphy
In phylogenetics, apomorphy and synapomorphy refer to derived characters of a clade – characters or traits that are derived from ancestral characters over evolutionary history.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.
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Tubercle
In anatomy, a tubercle is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal.
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Waigeo
Waigeo is an island in West Papua province of eastern Indonesia.
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Water pollution
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.
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Wobbegong
Wobbegong is the common name given to the 12 species of carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae.
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Year
A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.
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Yolk
Among animals which produce one, the yolk (also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasselled_wobbegong
