Brownbanded bamboo shark
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Brownbanded bamboo sharks find prey such as crabs with sensitive barbels on their snouts.
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Brownbanded bamboo sharks find prey such as crabs with sensitive barbels on their snouts.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Brownbanded bamboo shark
- Scientific name
- Chiloscyllium punctatum
- Japanese name
- イヌザメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Orectolobiformes
- Family
- Hemiscylliidae
- Genus
- Chiloscyllium
Where the name “Brownbanded bamboo shark” comes from
The genus name combines Greek words meaning “lip” and “a type of shark”.
Florida MuseumIt lives from an island in southwestern Japan and Taiwan to Southeast Asia, northern Australia and the seas off eastern India.
While young, it has black stripes, but as it grows, its whole body turns grayish brown.
How the Brownbanded bamboo shark lives
At night they become more active and dig through seabed sediment for prey. They spend the day hidden in coral reef crevices. The young develop inside egg cases, feeding on the yolk.
Florida MuseumNMFRI Gdynia AquariumBasic data
- Range
- Taiwan, eastern Malay Peninsula, Philippine Islands, Malay Archipelago, northern Australia, eastern India, and elsewhere
- Conservation status in Japan
- Data Deficient (DD)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Brownbanded bamboo shark has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- イヌザメ
- 简体中文
- 点纹斑竹鲨
- 繁體中文
- 點紋狗鯊
- 한국어
- 흑점얼룩상어
- Français
- Requin-chabot bambou
- Deutsch
- Braungebänderter Bambushai
- Português (Brasil)
- Tubarão-bambu-comum
- Italiano
- Squalo bambù bande marroni
- العربية
- قِرش-قُدّ خيزُران
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Hiu batu
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá mập tre vằn
- ไทย
- ปลาฉลามกบ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — イヌザメChecked: 2026-11-04
- Florida Museum — Brownbanded BamboosharkChecked: 2026-11-07
- NMFRI Gdynia Aquarium — Brownbanded bamboo sharkChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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