What is "wobbegong"

type of Australian shark, 1852, an Aboriginal word.

n. Any of eight species of bottom-dwelling carpet sharks in the ''(taxlink Orectolobidae family noshow=1)'' family, distinguished by their small vegetation-like flaps of skin around their mouth.

Wobbegong is the common name given to the 12 species of carpet sharks in the family Orectolobidae. They are found in shallow temperate and tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean, chiefly around Australia and Indonesia, although one species (the Japanese wobbegong, Orectolobus japonicus) occurs as far north as Japan. The word wobbegong is believed to come from an Australian Aboriginal language, meaning "shaggy beard", referring to the growths around the mouth of the shark of the western Pacific.