The Burmese bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium burmensis, is an extremely rare bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae. The first specimen was caught in 1963 off the coast from Rangoon in Myanmar (known as Burma at the time) in a depth of . This holotype is an adult male, long and kept in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.Howe, J. C. & Springer, V. G. "Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 5: Sharks (Chondrichthyes: Selachii)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. Number 540, 1993 Later, three more specimens, two males and one female, were recorded in 2018 from the Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation Fish Landing Center of Cox's Bazar. Ahmed, M.S., Chowdhury, N.Z., Datta, S.K. et al. New Geographical Record of the Burmese Bamboo Shark, Chiloscyllium burmensis (Orectolobiformes: Hemiscylliidae), from Bangladesh Waters. Thalassas 35, 347–350 (2019).
Description The dorsal fin of the Burmese bamboo shark has straight rear margins. They are relatively small in size and have a slender body, blunt snout, and small eyes. It has no particular color pattern.
Diet They eat small bony fish or invertebrates.Compagno, Leonard. Sharks of the World. Shark Research Center Iziko-Museums of Cape Town. No. 1. Vol 2. Cape Town South Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002. Pg 169.
Reproduction The Burmese bamboo shark is oviparous (egg laying), notedly laying eggs in pairs.
See also
List of sharks
References
Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005