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Image: Egg case of a Draughtboard Shark
Description
Egg case of a Draughtboard Shark found washed up on a beach in Tasmania.
- Photographer:
- Victor Belbin
- Rights:
- © Victor Belbin
- Common name:
- Draughtboard Shark
- Scientific name:
- Cephaloscyllium laticeps
- Family:
- Scyliorhinidae
- Order:
- Carcharhiniformes
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6 comments
Mark McGrouther
8.02 AM, 22 February 2010
Hi Michelle, Is it possible to send an image to me? mark.mcgrouther@austmus.gov.au. Thank you, Mark.
tomishy
10.02 AM, 20 February 2010
Hi, We live in Stanley Tasmania. This morning i found an intact egg case(normally they are pieces). It is a dark grey in colour - was wondering if someone could tell us why it would be a different colour to the above picture. Thanks
Amanda Hay
1.11 PM, 10 November 2009
Certainaly looks like the Draughtboard Shark egg to me too. On the species page Mark has written "Females lay distinctive flask-shaped egg cases that have 19 to 27 strong transverse ridges". Neat way to ID a shark egg case.
rasta
8.10 PM, 27 October 2009
We found a draught board shark egg on the 26/10/09 it is 9cms long and max width is 42 millimetres on 13th beach Barwon heads Victoria at the high tide mark after a south east swell at 4 to 5ft.
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