Bamboo sharks

Bamboo sharks
Young of the brown-banded bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium punctatum )
Systematics
Subclass : Plate gill (Elasmobranchii) without rank: Sharks (selachii) Superordinate : Galeomorphii Order : Nurse Shark (Orectolobiformes) Subordination : Orectoloboidei Family : Bamboo sharks
Scientific name
Hemiscylliidae
Gill , 1862

The bamboo or lip sharks (Hemiscylliidae) are a family of nurse sharks (Orectolobiformes). They live close to the coast in the tropical Indo-Pacific , from Madagascar to Australia , the Philippines and Japan .

features

Bamboo sharks are usually 50 to 100 centimeters long. The two largest species, the brown-banded bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium punctatum ) and the epaulette shark ( Hemiscyllium ocellatum ), reach a length of one meter. Many bamboo sharks are patterned with colored ribbons or spots. They have two stingless dorsal fins , a small, rounded anal fin that lies far behind the second dorsal fin, five gill slits and short barbels on the mouth. They are lazy animals that spend most of the day lying on the ground. Small fish and invertebrates make up their diet. Bamboo sharks are suitable for show aquariums because of their small final size.

Multiplication

Female bamboo sharks appear to be able to store male sperm. In an aquarium in Karlsruhe, multiple births have been observed in a female kept in isolation.

Genera and species

Eggs or egg capsules of an epaulette shark

There are two genera with 17 species :

• Genus: Chiloscyllium Müller & Henle, 1837
  • Arabian bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium arabicum Gubanov in Gubanov & Shleib, 1980 )
  • Burmese bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium burmensis Dingerkus & DeFino, 1983 )
  • Blue-spotted bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium caerulopunctatum Pellegrin, 1914)
  • Gray bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium griseum Müller & Henle, 1838 )
  • Indonesian bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium hasselti Bleeker, 1852 )
  • Slender bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium indicum (Gmelin, 1789) )
  • White-spotted bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium plagiosum (Anonymous [Bennett], 1830) )
  • Brown-banded bamboo shark ( Chiloscyllium punctatum Müller & Henle, 1838 )
• Genus: Epaulette sharks ( Hemiscyllium Müller & Henle, 1838 )
  • Freycinet's epaulette shark ( Hemiscyllium freycineti (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) )
  • Hemiscyllium galei Allen & Erdmann, 2008
  • Hemiscyllium halmahera Allen & Erdmann, 2013
  • Papuan epaulette shark ( Hemiscyllium halstromi Whitley, 1967 )
  • Hemiscyllium henryi Allen & Erdmann, 2008
  • Hemiscyllium michaeli Allen & Dudgeon, 2010
  • Epaulette shark ( Hemiscyllium ocellatum (Bonnaterre, 1788) )
  • Crested epaulette shark ( Hemiscyllium strahani Whitley, 1967 )
  • Spotted epaulette shark ( Hemiscyllium trispeculare Richardson, 1843 )

literature

• Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .

Web links

Commons : Bamboo Sharks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bamboo sharks on Fishbase.org (English)