WoRMS taxon details
Hemiscylliidae Gill, 1862
148831 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148831)
accepted
Family
- Genus Chiloscyllium Müller & Henle, 1837
- Genus Hemiscyllium Müller & Henle, 1838
- Genus Chilosycylum accepted as Chiloscyllium Müller & Henle, 1837 (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Tropical western Pacific from Madagascar in the west to Japan, the Philippines and the Australian region in the East. Two...
Description Tropical western Pacific from Madagascar in the west to Japan, the Philippines and the Australian region in the East. Two dorsal fins without spines. Anal fin present. Five gillslits. Mouth ventral. Fourth and fith gill opening behind origin of pectoral fin. Small, slender sharks (max 1 m) with nasal grooves, shorth barbels, large spiracles below eyes. Precaudal tail longer than head and body length. Inshore bottom sharks of continental waters. Food probably includes small bottom fishes and invertebrates. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hemiscylliidae Gill, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148831 on 2025-04-30
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
basis of record
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
[request]
[request]Other
additional source
Compagno, L.J.V. (2001). Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Volume 2. Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes.</em> No. 1, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. 269p. [details]
Unreviewed
Description Tropical western Pacific from Madagascar in the west to Japan, the Philippines and the Australian region in the East. Two dorsal fins without spines. Anal fin present. Five gillslits. Mouth ventral. Fourth and fith gill opening behind origin of pectoral fin. Small, slender sharks (max 1 m) with nasal grooves, shorth barbels, large spiracles below eyes. Precaudal tail longer than head and body length. Inshore bottom sharks of continental waters. Food probably includes small bottom fishes and invertebrates. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | walking sharkslongtailed carpet sharksbamboo sharks | [details] |
| French | requins-chabot | [details] |
| Japanese | テンジクザメ科 | [details] |
| Spanish | bamboas | [details] |
