Carpet, or Vobbegongov, call sharks who belong to a class of cartilaginous fishes. Names of this group are connected with one of a set of the languages used by the Australian natives and unique camouflage coloring.
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1. Representatives of carpet sharks live in the water area of Quiet and Indian oceans, preferring shallow water of moderate and tropical belts. Length of these benthonic sea predators usually is about 1.25 meters. But cases when spotty vobbegonga and representatives of Orectolobus halei managed to grow about 3 meters are known.
2. Now vobbegongovy are object of fishery. In Australia and a number of the Asian countries, meat of vobbegongovy is used in food and also demand for a motley shark skin does not fall down. More often the carpet sharks breeding in the conditions of bondage can be seen among inhabitants of North American, European and Australian oceanariums.
3. They differ in high flexibility - the shark can quite reach a hand which holds them by a tail. Teeth at vobbegongovy though small, but rather sharp, and after a sting they often remain in a human body. According to experts, teeth of sharks are extremely problematic to be taken then. Popular belief that vobbegongovy badly see therefore are capable to seize quickly practically any subject which appeared near them.
4. Sharks possess fine camouflage coloring - the fancy symmetric spots which are visually reminding elements of a carpet ornament. They are obliged to it by the name. Strengthen masking at these predatory fishes meeting in the west of the Pacific Ocean, the vodoroslepodobny skin outgrowths which are available on a snout. They are used by fishes as tactile receptors. It is interesting that representatives of one of branches of the Australian natives christened carpet sharks "a shaggy beard" that sounds as vobbegongovy, and it became a basis for one more official name after a while.
5. The diet of representatives of this family of benthonic sharks, according to researchers, usually represents the menu from fishes, lobsters, crabs, octopuses and to them similar. It is interesting that the developed chest and belly fins give vobbegongovy a unique opportunity - fishes can creep on a bottom, and sometimes even move by land, overcoming small distances that from one tidal basin to get to another.