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Orectoloboides

Orectoloboides is an extinct genus of wobbegong sharks (family Orectolobidae). It was described by Cappetta in 1977. A new species, O. angulatus, was described from the Cenomanian age of Canada by Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa in 2010.

Species

  • Orectoloboides parvulus <small>(Dalinkevicius, 1935)</small>
  • Orectoloboides multistriatus <small>Werner, 1989</small>
  • Orectoloboides reyndersi <small>Adnet, 2006</small>
  • Orectoloboides angulatus <small>Underwood & Cumbaa, 2010</small>
  • Orectoloboides gijseni <small>Herman & Van Den Eeckhaut, 2010</small>

Two species formerly assigned to this genus, O. glashoffi <small>Thies, 1981</small> and O. pattersoni <small>Thies, 1983</small>, were transferred to the separate genus Ornatoscyllium by Underwood & Ward (2004).

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