Grey bamboo shark

Grey bamboo shark
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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
Range of the grey bamboo shark
Synonyms
Chiloscyllium indicum var. obscurum* Ogilby, 1888 Chiloscyllium obscurum* Gray, 1851 Scyliorhinus unicolor* Blainville, 1816 * 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]

See also

Sharks portal

• List of sharks

References

1. ^ Lisney, T.J. and R.D. Cavanagh (2003). Chiloscyllium griseum. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on January 11, 2009.
2. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2010). "Chiloscyllium griseum" in FishBase. January 2010 version.
3. ^ Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando and S. Fowler (2005). Sharks of the World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691120722. 
4. ^ Compagno, Leonard. "Sharks of the world." Shark Research Center Iziko-Museums of Cape Town. NO. 1. Vol 2. Cape Town South Africa: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS, 2002. Pg 169
5. ^ unknown, . "Chiloscyllium punctatum." International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. N.p., 2010. Web. 15 April 2010.<unknown, . "Chiloscyllium punctatum." International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. N.p., 2010. Web. 15 April 2010./>