Grey bamboo shark

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]

Grey bamboo shark
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Division:	Selachii
Order:	Orectolobiformes
Family:	Hemiscylliidae
Genus:	Chiloscyllium
Species:	C. griseum
Binomial name
Chiloscyllium griseum J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838
Range of the grey bamboo shark
Synonyms
Chiloscyllium indicum var. obscurum* Ogilby, 1888 Chiloscyllium obscurum* Gray, 1851 Scyliorhinus unicolor* Blainville, 1816 * ambiguous synonym

Features: Adults are brown and have no coloration but the juveniles have transverse dark bands.^[4]

Reproduction is Oviparous (egg laying).

Classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List^[1]

See also

• Sharks portal

• List of sharks