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carpet shark
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carpet shark
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
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Noun1.carpet shark - shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skincarpet shark - shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin
shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales


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The two-year-old wobbegong, or carpet sharks, measuring up to 80cm in length, are bottom-dwelling sharks and regarded as harmless but can grow to three metres.
 
 
 
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