Australian marbled catshark
- Australian marbled catshark
Taxobox
name = Australian marbled catshark
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = "Atelomycterus"
species = "A. macleayi"
binomial = "Atelomycterus macleayi"
binomial_authority = Whitley, 1939
The Australian marbled catshark, "Atelomycterus macleayi", is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the eastern Indian Ocean endemic to Western Australia between latitudes 12° S and 21° S, from the surface to 245 m. Its length is up to 60 cm.
The Australian marbled catshark is a little-known inshore catshark found on sandy and rocky bottoms.
Reproduction is oviparous, pups measuring about 10 cm at birth.
Coloration is a pattern of grey saddles separated by light areas and outlined by numerous small black spots (pups have a simpler pattern of dark saddles, remarkably similar to "Acanthophthalmus semicinctus").
ee also
* List of sharks
References
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