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Orectolobus hutchinsi Last, Chidlow & Compagno, 2006

Western wobbegong
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Australia country information

Common names: Western wobbegong
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality, north of Rottnest Island, CSIRO H 5275-01 (holotypeof Orectolobus hutchinsi, 1325 mm TL, mature male). Known from the inshore continental shelf of Western Australia, from Groper Bkuff (west of Bremer Bay) to Coral Bay (near North West Cape) (Ref. 58024).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.csiro.au/
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Last, P.R., J.A. Chidlow and L.J.V. Compagno, 2006
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Classification / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | Catalog of Fishes(Giống, Các loài) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Lớp phụ Cá sụn (cá mập và cá đuối) (sharks and rays) > Orectolobiformes (Carpet sharks) > Orectolobidae (Carpet or nurse sharks)
Etymology: Orectolobus: orektos (Gr.), stretched out; lobus (L.), from lobos (Gr.), rounded projection or protuberance, referring to long nasal barbels of Squalus barbatus (=O. maculatus). (See ETYFish);  hutchinsi: In honor of J. Barry Hutchins (b. 1946), Curator of Fishes, Western Australian Museum (Perth), who first reported this shark as a new species in 1983. (See ETYFish).
  More on authors: Last, Chidlow & Compagno.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Sinh thái học

Biển gần đáy; Mức độ sâu 0 - 106 m (Ref. 58024), usually 0 - 79 m (Ref. 58024).   Tropical

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Eastern Indian Ocean: Western Australia. Sympatric with O. maculatus and O. ornatus.

Bộ gần gũi / Khối lượng (Trọng lượng) / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 149 cm TL con đực/không giới tính; (Ref. 58024)

Short description Khóa để định loại | Hình thái học | Sinh trắc học

Diagnosis: A moderate-sized species with the following characters: yellowish-brown when fresh with well-defined, darker brown saddles; absence fo white spots, blotches or reticulations on the fins and body; nasal barbel bilobed; postspiracular lobes are simple, reduced or rudimentary; distance across preorbital lobe group 1.2-1.3 times interspace between preorbital group and postspiracular lobe, 13-15 times base length of anterior postspiracular lobe; base of anterior postspiracular lobe 11-12 in its distance from postorbital group, 4.9-7 in its distance from posterior postspiracular lobe; mouth width 4.7-10.2 times preoral distance; warty tubercles absent on back of adult; juveniles with rows of elevated denticles or poorly defined warty tubercles on back; dorsal fins raked posteriorly; first dorsal fin over rear half of pelvic -fin bases; interdorsal space 0.38-0.56 times anal-fin base length; anal-fin inner margin 0.8-1.1 times anal-fin posterior margin; teeth in upper jaw 25-27, those in the medial row at symphysis rudimentary; spiral valve turns 26-28; monospondylous centra 48-50 (Ref. 58024).

Sinh học     Tự điển (thí dụ epibenthic)

Males mature at about 111 cm TL. Young born at 22-26 cm TL (mean 24.1 cm TL based on 40 specimens). Caught as by-catch of local gillnet, longline, rock lobster and recreational fisheries (Ref. 58024).

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Last, P.R., J.A. Chidlow and L.J.V. Compagno, 2006. A new wobbegong shark, Orectolobus hutchinsi n. sp. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 1239:35-48. (Ref. 58024)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 18 February 2015

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless




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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 17.4 - 22.3, mean 18.3 (based on 126 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5012   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm Total Length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Mức dinh dưỡng (Ref. 69278):  4.0   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Very high vulnerability (89 of 100).