Grey bamboo shark | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Orectolobiformes |
Family: | Hemiscylliidae |
Genus: | Chiloscyllium |
Species: | C. griseum |
Binomial name | |
Chiloscyllium griseum J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838 |
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Range of the grey bamboo shark | |
Synonyms | |
Chiloscyllium indicum var. obscurum* Ogilby, 1888 * ambiguous synonym |
The grey bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium griseum, is a species of carpet shark in the family Hemiscylliidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific Oceans from the Arabian Sea to Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Japan, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 34° N and 10° S, and longitude 60° E and 150° E. Its length is up to 74 cm.[2][3]
Features: Adults are brown and have no coloration but the juveniles have transverse dark bands.[4]
Reproduction is Oviparous (egg laying).
Classified as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List[5]