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Saddled swellshark
The saddled swellshark (''Cephaloscyllium variegatum'') is a rare species of catshark, and part of the family Scyliorhinidae, endemic to Eastern Australia. This bottom-dwelling species is found on the outer continental shelf and upper continental slope at a depth of . It is a robustly built shark with a short, broad, flattened head and a capacious mouth. Adults are patterned with saddles on a brownish or grayish background, which varies between tropical and temperate sharks; juveniles are light-colored with many spots. This shark reaches in length. Like other swellsharks, it can inflate itself as a defensive measure. Reproduction is oviparous.
==Taxonomy==
In 1994, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) chief researchers Peter Last and John Stevens recognized five undescribed swellsharks in Australian waters. Later investigation revealed that the forms provisionally named ''Cephaloscyllium'' "sp. B" and "sp. C" may represent clinal variants of a single species, which was described by Peter Last and William White in a 2008 CSIRO publication.〔 The specific epithet ''variegatum'' comes from the Latin word for "various", and refers to the large amount of color variation within this species. The type specimen is long adult male, collected from east of Newcastle, New South Wales.〔
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