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Hemiscylliidae

Description

Hemiscylliidae

Chiloscyllium plagiosum (Bennett, 1830) —Whitespotted bambooshark

STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on a specimen photographed at St. CTR 28.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. India east to Philippines, north to southern Japan and Korea. Found resting on the bottom in coral and rocky reef habitats, including tidal pools, 0– 50 m. Marine.

Chiloscyllium punctatum Müller & Henle, 1838 —Brownbanded bambooshark

STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on a specimen observed by S. Andréfouët, St. CTR 01; photographed by A. Berberian.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. India east to Philippines, north to Taiwan, south to northern Australia. Found resting on the bottom in coral reef habitats, including tidal pools, 0– 85 m. Marine.

Hemiscyllium strahani Whitley, 1967 —Hooded carpetshark (Fig. 2)

STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on a specimen photographed at St. CTR 34, and another by P. Laboute on 24 Nov. 2012; a specimen collected by W.-J. Chen. ASIZ material (ASIZ uncat.). DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Endemic to Papua New Guinea. Found on coral reefs, 3– 18 m. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, pp. 1-247 in Zootaxa 3832 (1) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/250559

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Biodiversity

Family
Hemiscylliidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orectolobiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family