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White-spotted bamboo shark

Chiloscyllium plagiosum

Description:

White-spotted bamboo sharks are relatively small, growing to about a meter from head to tail. They have dark and light bands of brown, much like brown-banded bamboo sharks, but also have white spots.

Habitat:

White-spotted bamboo sharks are found in the waters off of south-eastern Asia, stretching from "Japan to India," (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespotte...) as well as around Indonesia and Madagascar.

Notes:

I work as a touchpool volunteer at the Albuquerque Aquarium, and one of our touchpools features bamboo sharks and stingrays. One day, I was working with two other volunteers, and the smallest white-spotted bamboo shark was unfortunate enough to have a larger white-spotted grasp the smaller's right frontal fin with its mouth. They stayed like this for a while, and occasionally the larger shark would readjust and cause the smaller one to twitch. Soon, the large shark began shoving the smaller one's head into the sand, causing both sharks to be perpendicular to the tank floor and tails to flail out of the water. Other sharks began gathering, but luckily this didn't turn into a feeding frenzy. Found in the Albuquerque Aquarium. Unfortunately, I did not have a camera or phone, but one of the other volunteers captured this and let me use it.

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Michael Kerr
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Michael Kerr

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Spotted on Feb 20, 2014
Submitted on Feb 22, 2014

Spotted for Mission

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