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Australian angelshark has a broad, vertically compressed body and large triangular pectoral fins with free trailing flaps. The snout has fringed barbels beside the nostrils and a pair of spiracles. Each of these is set at a distance from the eye of about one and a half times the diameter of the
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Australian angelshark lies semi-submerged in the sediment on the seabed during the day, eating anything that comes too close. It emerges at night to actively seek out
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1177:Marine fish of Southern Australia
1187:Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan
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855:Squatina pseudocellata
783:Disparate angelshark (
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35:Australian angelshark
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392:across the seabed.
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51:Conservation status
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864:S. squatina
847:S. punctata
821:S. nebulosa
812:S. mexicana
794:S. japonica
697:S. africana
688:S. aculeata
667:Squatinidae
449:12 November
296:Description
263:subtropical
259:Squatinidae
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830:S. occulta
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767:S. formosa
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637:Subphylum
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396:References
252:angelshark
134:Subclass:
724:S. armata
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366:gestation
341:Behaviour
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267:Australia
186:Species:
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677:Squatina
657:Selachii
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323:Victoria
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