🦋 Family

Hemiscylliidae

4 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Elasmobranchii › Orectolobiformes › Hemiscylliidae

Chiloscyllium plagiosum (whitespotted bamboo shark) is a Pacific oviparous shark with unique easily identifiable coloration.

The brownbanded bamboo shark Chiloscyllium punctatum is a small, docile Indo-West Pacific shark popular in public aquaria.

Hemiscyllium freycineti, the Indonesian speckled carpetshark, is a small nocturnal bamboo shark found only around Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Hemiscyllium ocellatum, the epaulette shark, is a small walking shark found in Australian and New Guinean shallow reef habitats.

Related Families

Orectolobidae 4 species Ginglymostomatidae 2 species Brachaeluridae 1 species Rhincodontidae 1 species Stegostomatidae 1 species

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