Brownbanded bamboo shark
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 Range of the brownbanded bamboo shark (in blue)
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The brownbanded bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium punctatum, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found in the Indo-West Pacific from India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Viet Nam, China, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, and northern Australia, between latitudes 34° N and 26° S, to depths of 85 m. Its length is up to 1.04 m.
The brownbanded bamboo shark has its mouth closer to its eyes than the snout tip. The caudal fin has a pronounced subterminal notch but without a ventral lobe. The dorsal fins are larger than the pelvic fins, with projecting free rear tips. It is a common inshore bottom shark found on coral reefs, often in tide pools. Probably feeds on bottom invertebrates and small fish, and the gills are sometimes infested by larval isopods (Praniza—larva of isopod Gnathia). It is utilized as food.
It has the ability to survive low oxygen conditions by switching off non-essential brain functions—apparently an adaptation for hunting in tide pools with low oxygen, and it can survive up to 12 hours out of water.
Coloration of young dark transverse bands and usually a scattering of a few dark spots, bars not prominently edged with black. Adults are light-brown, usually without a color pattern.
Reproduction is oviparous.
This shark is probably the most suited to aquaria.
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- "Chiloscyllium punctatum". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2
