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Carpet shark new zealand.
It is brown mottled and spotted with darker brown.
Carpets are largely nocturnal and always look like a deer in the headlights when dragged up the beach in daylight.
It uses records dating back to the early 1800s to show the areas with the most attacks and fatalities.
Nurse sharks and whale sharks have a fringe of barbels on their snouts and barbelthroat carpet sharks cirrhoscyllium expolitum have barbels dangling from their throat regions.
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The new zealand carpet shark is also found in southern australia.
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These schemes test the carpet for its appearance retention its durability and its resistance to dirt and insect damage and fading.
These are a true nuisance fish they fight poorly don t grow especially large and have very limited culinary value.
A chilling map of new zealand shark attacks shows where you re most likely to be bitten.
Mclintock originally published in 1966.
In shape the carpet shark somewhat approaches the spreading form of a sting ray.
Carpet shark cephaloscyllium isabellum from an encyclopaedia of new zealand edited by a.
So it is perfectly ok to eat.
Carpet sharks are another commonly encountered species particularly from wellington south.
The woolmark or the wools of new zealand fernmark schemes grade wool carpets and the woolblendmark grades 80 20 wool synthetic blends.
This rather brightly coloured carpet shark was caught in akaroa harbour.
New zealand s last fatal attack was in february 2013.
By arthur william baden powell assistant director auckland institute and museum.
Most carpet sharks feed on the seabed in shallow to medium depth waters detecting and picking up molluscs and crustaceans and other small creatures.
Te ara the encyclopedia of new zealand.
The body is flattened dorsally and the tail resembles that of a dogfish.
Its appearance is somewhat grotesque and generally off putting to most surfcasters who are usually more inclined to let them go than take one home for dinner.