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Hemiscylliidae
catshark
Chiloscyllium indicum
Small oval capsules cling to bay mud
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Pacific Ocean
Elongated
Largecatshark is known from Indo-West Pacific as a fish. Records give a maximum length of 65 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Carpet Sharks
- Family
- Hemiscylliidae
- Genus
- Chiloscyllium
- Maximum length
- 65 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: India, Sri Lanka, to about Bangladesh; possibly Arabian Sea, and around Thailand and Indonesia (Sumatra). Records from Solomon Islands and north to China and Japan are different species, possibly Chiloscyllium plagiosum .
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
