Bluespotted bamboo shark
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| Chiloscyllium caerulopunctatum Pellegrin, 1914 |
The bluespotted bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium caerulopunctatum, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around Madagascar, between latitudes 10° N and 26° S. Its length is up to 67 cm.
The bluespotted bambooshark was previously synonymized with the whitespotted bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium plagiosum but is now tentatively recognized as a valid separate species.
Coloration is light brown dorsally, paler ventrally, with blue-white spots.
Reproduction is oviparous.
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- "Chiloscyllium caerulopunctatum". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. July 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
