Image: Cobbler Wobbegong with a gilled leech
A gilled leech on the dorsal fin of a Cobbler Wobbegong at a depth of 4.5 m, Port Hughes, South Australia, 16 November 2008.
- Photographer:
- Phil Mercurio
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Cobbler Wobbegong
- Scientific name:
- Sutorectus tentaculatus
- Family:
- Orectolobidae
- Order:
- Orectolobiformes
Additional information
The Cobbler Wobbegong has few unbranched dermal lobes on the head and warty tubercles on the head and back (some are visible in the image).
The species occurs from the lower central coast of Western Australia to eastern South Australia.
Reference:
Last, P.R. & J.D. Stevens. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Edition 2. CSIRO. Pp. 644, Pl. 1-91.
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Cobbler Wobbegong, Sutorectus tentaculatus, Orectolobidae,
