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The Burmese bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium burmensis, is an extremely rare bamboo shark
Bamboo shark

Bamboo sharks are of the order Orectolobiformes, which contains seven families. The bambooshark family itself contains several different species, including the brownbanded bamboo shark , the grey bamboo shark and the whitespotted bamboo shark ....
 in the family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 Hemiscylliidae
Hemiscylliidae

The Hemiscylliidae, also called longtail carpet sharks or bamboo sharks, are a family of sharks found only in shallow waters of the tropical western Pacific....
, the only specimen, and holotype
Holotype

A holotype is one of several possible biological types. A type is what fixes a name to a taxon. A holotype is a single physical example of an organism, known to have been used when the species was formally described....
, being found off Rangoon in Burma, between latitude
Latitude

Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. Lines of Latitude are the horizontal lines shown running east-to-west on maps ....
s 18° N
18th parallel north

The 18th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 18 degree true north of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 18? north passes through:...
 and 14° S
14th parallel south

The 14th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 14 degree south of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 14? south passes through:...
, and longitude
Longitude

Longitude , symbolized by the Greek character lambda , is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement....
 93° E
93rd meridian east

The meridian 93? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....
 and 98° E
98th meridian east

The meridian 98? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....
. The holotype's length is 57 cm.

The Burmese bamboo shark has very small eyes, and the dorsal fin
Dorsal fin

A wikt:dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish, whales, dolphins, and porpoises, as well as the ichthyosaurs. Its main purpose is to stabilize the animal against rolling and assist in sudden turns....
s are long and low. The precaudal tail is greatly elongated and thick, the long and low anal fin is just anterior to the caudal fin, and there are no ridges on the back.






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The Burmese bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium burmensis, is an extremely rare bamboo shark
Bamboo shark

Bamboo sharks are of the order Orectolobiformes, which contains seven families. The bambooshark family itself contains several different species, including the brownbanded bamboo shark , the grey bamboo shark and the whitespotted bamboo shark ....
 in the family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 Hemiscylliidae
Hemiscylliidae

The Hemiscylliidae, also called longtail carpet sharks or bamboo sharks, are a family of sharks found only in shallow waters of the tropical western Pacific....
, the only specimen, and holotype
Holotype

A holotype is one of several possible biological types. A type is what fixes a name to a taxon. A holotype is a single physical example of an organism, known to have been used when the species was formally described....
, being found off Rangoon in Burma, between latitude
Latitude

Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. Lines of Latitude are the horizontal lines shown running east-to-west on maps ....
s 18° N
18th parallel north

The 18th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 18 degree true north of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 18? north passes through:...
 and 14° S
14th parallel south

The 14th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 14 degree south of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 14? south passes through:...
, and longitude
Longitude

Longitude , symbolized by the Greek character lambda , is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement....
 93° E
93rd meridian east

The meridian 93? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....
 and 98° E
98th meridian east

The meridian 98? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....
. The holotype's length is 57 cm.

The Burmese bamboo shark has very small eyes, and the dorsal fin
Dorsal fin

A wikt:dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish, whales, dolphins, and porpoises, as well as the ichthyosaurs. Its main purpose is to stabilize the animal against rolling and assist in sudden turns....
s are long and low. The precaudal tail is greatly elongated and thick, the long and low anal fin is just anterior to the caudal fin, and there are no ridges on the back. The dorsal fins have nearly straight or convex
Convex

The word convex means curving out or bulging outward.Convex or convexity may refer to:Mathematics:* Convex set, a set of points containing all line segments between each pair of its points...
 posterior margins. It feeds on small bony fish.

The Burmese bamboo shark has dark fins, but the juvenile coloration is not known.

Reproduction is presumed to be oviparous.

See also

  • List of sharks
    List of sharks

    Shark classificationSharks belong to the superorder Selachimorpha in the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. It is a fish. The Elasmobranchii also include batoidea and skate s; the Chondrichthyes also include Chimaeras....