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39 relations: Ambush predator, Australia, Australian Aboriginal languages, Camouflage, Carpet shark, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Charles Tate Regan, Charles Walter De Vis, Cobbler wobbegong, Dwarf spotted wobbegong, Fish and chips, Flake (fish), Floral banded wobbegong, Fossil, Gilbert Percy Whitley, Gulf wobbegong, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, International Shark Attack File, Japan, Japanese wobbegong, Leather, List of sharks, Northern wobbegong, Orectolobus, Orectolobus hutchinsi, Orectolobus reticulatus, Ornate wobbegong, Pacific Ocean, Peter R. Last, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Pieter Bleeker, Sharks in captivity, Spotted wobbegong, Surfing, Symmetry, Tasselled wobbegong, Theodore Gill, Wilhelm Peters.
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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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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Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 languages belonging to an estimated twenty-eight language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands.
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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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Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French biologist and ornithologist.
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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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Charles Walter De Vis
Charles Walter de Vis (Birmingham, England, 9 May 1829 – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 30 April 1915), — Australian Dictionary of Biography known as Devis before about 1882, was an English zoologist, ornithologist., — Encyclopedia of Australian science herpetologist,"De Vis".
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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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Dwarf spotted wobbegong
The dwarf spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus parvimaculatus) is a recently described carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae.
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Fish and chips
Fish and chips is a hot dish of English origin consisting of fried battered fish and hot potato chips.
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Flake (fish)
Flake is a term used in Australia to indicate the flesh of any of several species of small shark, particularly the gummy shark.
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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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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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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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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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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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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 Shark Attack File
The International Shark Attack File is a global database of shark attacks.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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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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Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
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List of sharks
Sharks belong to the superorder Selachimorpha in the subclass Elasmobranchii, in the class Chondrichthyes.
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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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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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Orectolobus reticulatus
Orectolobus reticulates, the network wobbegong, is a recently described species of carpet shark found in relatively shallow waters off Kimberley and Darwin in north-western Australia.
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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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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Peter R. Last
Peter Robert Last is an Australian ichthyologist, curator of the Australian National Fish Collection and a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752, Aveyron – 20 September 1804, Saint-Geniez) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique.
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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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Sharks in captivity
Several species of sharks are kept in captivity in public aquaria.
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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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Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave, which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore.
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Symmetry
Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.
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Tasselled wobbegong
The tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon) is a species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae and the only member of its genus.
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Theodore Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian.
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Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbegong
