Burmese bamboo shark
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| Burmese bamboo shark | |
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| Species: | C. burmensis
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| Chiloscyllium burmensis | |
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The Burmese bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium burmensis, is an extremely rare bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae. Only one single specimen is known to science. It was caught 1963 off the coast from Rangoon in Burma in a depth of 29 – 33 m. This holotype is an adult male, 57 cm long and kept in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.[1]
Features: No color pattern. Dorsal fin has straight rear margins.[2]
Food: Small bony fish or invertebrates.[3]
Reproduction is presumed to be oviparous (egg laying).
See also
References
- ^ Howe JC and Springer "VG Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 5: Sharks (Chondrichthyes: Selachii)" SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGY Number 540, 1993
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Chiloscyllium burmensis". FishBase. July 2006 version.
- Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2