Ornate angelshark

The ornate angelshark, Squatina tergocellata, is a flattened, bottom-living shark of the angelshark family Squatinidae. It is endemic to the temperate waters of southern Australia, where it lives between about latitudes 30 and 35 degrees south on the deeper shelf and upper slope at depths of roughly 130 to 400 metres. It can reach about 1.4 metres in length. Females mature at around 1.15 to 1.25 metres and males at around 0.81 to 0.91 metres. Reproduction is ovoviviparous, with litters of two to nine pups. Studies of the species in the Great Australian Bight suggest a gestation period of at least six to twelve months and a birth cycle that may repeat only every second year; the right ovary holds fewer follicles than the left, and follicles are smallest in spring after ovulation and largest in autumn just before it. Stomach contents most often hold squid, notably Gould's arrow squid, along with fish, mainly leatherjackets of the family Monacanthidae.