Image: Bite marks of a Wobbegong Shark

Bite marks on Chai's wrist, two weeks after being bitten by a small Wobbegong Shark at a depth of 19 m during a morning dive on April 26 2004.

Photographer:

Carl Bento

Rights:

© Australian Museum

Common name:

Wobbegong

Scientific name:

Orectolobus sp

Family:

Orectolobidae

Order:

Orectolobiformes

Last Updated: 3 December 2012

Tags Fishes, Ichthyology, Bite marks, bite, Wobbegong Shark, Orectolobus, Orectolobidae,