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The tasselled wobbegong is a northern Australian and New Guinean carpet shark, notable as the only living Eucrossorhinus species and for its head fringe.
The spotted wobbegong is an Australian carpet shark, notable for O-shaped body spots and for being among the largest wobbegongs, reaching about 3.2 m.
The ornate wobbegong is an eastern Australian carpet shark, notable for its patterned reef camouflage and for being described by Charles Walter De Vis in 1883.
The banded wobbegong, Orectolobus halei, is a southern Australian carpet shark, notable for being restored as a separate species from O. ornatus in 2006.
The Japanese wobbegong is a western Pacific carpet shark, notable as the wobbegong species whose range reaches Japan and for being described by Regan in 1906.
Sutorectus tentaculatus is the cobbler wobbegong of Western Australia, notable as the only living Sutorectus species and for its unbranched head lobes.
The northern wobbegong is a small Australian carpet shark, notable for a western Pacific range around northern Australia and an adult length of about 63 cm.
