Animal Diversity Web

Heteroscyllium colcloughi

Blue-gray carpet shark

(Also: Colclough's shark; Southern blind shark)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Class Chondrichthyes (rays, sharks, and relatives)
        
        Elasmobranchii
        
        Order Orectolobiformes
        
        Family Brachaeluridae (Blind sharks)
        
        Genus Heteroscyllium
        
        Species Heteroscyllium colcloughi (Blue-gray carpet shark)