a line to the northwest extreme of York Peninsula, Australia ()] and the East Coast of Australia as far south as Latitude 30° South. Class Chondrichthyes Order Hexanchiformes Family Hexanchidae - Sixgill and sevengill sharks Bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Worldwide in tropical and tepmperate seas) Order Heterodontiformes Family Heterodontidae – Hornsharks, Port Jackson sharks, bullhead sharks. Zebra bullhead shark Heterodontus zebra (Gray,1831) (Northern Australia to southern Japan) Order Orectolobiformes Family Orectolobidae – Wobbegongs Tasselled wobbegong Eucrossorhinus dasypogon Regan, 1908 (Northern Australia and New Guinea) Banded wobbegong Orectolobus ornatus (De Vis, 1883) (Northern Australia, New Guinea and southern Japan) Northern wobbegong Orectolobus wardi Whitley, 1939 (Northern Australia) Family Hemiscylliidae - Bamboo sharks Brownbanded bamboo shark Chiloscyllium punctatum Mueller and Henle, 1838 (East coast of Indian peninsula to northern Australia and north to Japan) Epaulette shark Hemiscyllium ocellatum (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Northern Australia and New Guinea) Speckled catshark Hemiscyllium trispeculare Richardson, 1843 (Northern Australia) Family Stegostomatidae - Leopard sharks Zebra shark Stegostoma fasciatum (Hermann, 1783) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Australia and New Caledonia) Family Ginglymostomatidae - Nurse sharks Tawny nurse shark Nebrius ferrugineus (Lesson, 1830) (Indo-West Pacific from East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands) Family Rhincodontidae - Whale sharks Whale shark Rhincodon typus (Smith, 1828) (Circumglobal in warm temperate seas) Order Lamniformes Family Odontaspididae - Sand tiger sharks Grey nurse shark Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 syn. Eugomphodus taurus (Around the Australian mainland, also widespread overseas) (Tropical and temperate waters of most seas but absent from eastern and cantral Pacific Ocean) Family Alopiidae - Thresher sharks Small tooth thresher shark Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935 (Circumtropical) Family Lamnidae – Makos, Mackerel sharks Shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1809 (Circumglobal in temperate and tropical seas) Order Carcharhiniformes Family Scyliorhinidae - Catsharks Marbled catshark Atelomycterus macleayi Whitley, 1939 (Northern Australia) Reticulated swellshark Cephaloscyllium fasciatum Chen, 1966 (Northern Australia and South China Sea) Family Carcharhinidae – Whaler sharks, requiem sharks Silvertip shark Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rueppell, 1837) (Tropical Indopacific and eastern Pacific) Bignose shark Carcharhinus altimus (Springer, 1950) (Circumglobal in temperate and tropical seas) Grey reef shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa and Red Sea east to Hawaii and Pitcairn Island) Pigeye shark Carcharhinus amboinensis (Mueller and Henle, 1839) (East Africa to Australia) Bronze whaler Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther,1870) (Jurien Bay, Western Australia to Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, and northern Tasmania) (Along coastal margins in most tropical and