Burmese bamboo shark
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Orectolobiformes
Family:	Hemiscylliidae
Genus:	Chiloscyllium
Species:	C. burmensis
Binomial name
Chiloscyllium burmensis Dingerkus & DeFino, 1983
Range of the Burmese bamboo shark (in blue)

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The Burmese bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium burmensis, is an extremely rare bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae, the only specimen found off Rangoon in Burma. The holotype's length is 57 cm.

Reproduction is presumed to be oviparous.

[edit] See also

• List of sharks

[edit] References

• "Chiloscyllium burmensis". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. July 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
• Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2