Brown-banded Bamboo Shark

Chiloscyllium punctatum

Also known as: Banded Bamboo Shark, Banded Cat Shark, Black-banded Bamboo Shark, Black-banded Cat Shark, Brown-banded Cat Shark, Brown-spotted Bamboo Shark, Brown-spotted Cat Shark, Cat Shark, Carpet Shark, Grey Bamboo Shark, Grey Carpet Shark, Hasselt's Bamboo Shark, Longtail Carpet Shark, Slender Bamboo Shark, Spotted Cat Shark, White-spotted Bamboo Shark

ALSO KNOWN AS

Banded Bamboo Shark
Banded Cat Shark
Black-banded Bamboo Shark
Black-banded Cat Shark
Brown-banded Cat Shark
Brown-spotted Bamboo Shark
Brown-spotted Cat Shark
Cat Shark
Carpet Shark
Grey Bamboo Shark
Grey Carpet Shark
Hasselt's Bamboo Shark
Longtail Carpet Shark
Slender Bamboo Shark
Spotted Cat Shark
White-spotted Bamboo Shark

NTNear ThreatenedIUCN Red List, 2024

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Brown-banded Bamboo Shark adult, photographed at Bali, Indonesia — @perigor2000 · Bali, Indonesia · March 20111 / 2

Overview

Found singly or in schools, often resting under rocks during the day, dispersing at night to hunt for food, over shallow waters of estuaries, coral and rocky reefs and in tide pools.
Juveniles are patterned but fade with age.

These sharks have barbels to sift through the sand for invertebrates, These sharks are quite common and harmless.

How to identify

COLOURS

Pattern: bands stripes
Head & Mouth: barbels
Behaviour: nocturnal schooling solitary

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Habitat & where to find it

Range · Indo-West Pacific
Country only · 2

LIVES IN

Found singly or in schools, often resting under rocks during the day, dispersing at night to hunt for food, over shallow waters of estuaries, coral and rocky reefs and in tide pools.

RANGE