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title: "Brown-banded Bamboo Shark"
description: "Chiloscyllium punctatum — Fish. The brownbanded bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum), is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae that can be found in the Indo-West Pacific from Japan to northern Australia, between latitudes 34° N and 26° S."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/brown-banded-bamboo-shark
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown-banded Bamboo Shark

> Chiloscyllium punctatum — Fish. The brownbanded bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum), is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae that can be found in the Indo-West Pacific from Japan to northern Australia, between latitudes 34° N and 26° S.

- Scientific name: *Chiloscyllium punctatum*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast), `zoo` (Zoo & pets)
- iNaturalist observations: 704
- Wikidata: [Q29227](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29227)
- iNaturalist taxon: [97441](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/97441)

## Names

- en: Brown-banded Bamboo Shark
- de: Braungebänderter Bambushai
- es: Bamboa estriada
- fr: Requin-chabot bambou
- nl: Bruinbandbamboehaai
- pl: Brązowy rekin bambusowy

## Countries with the most observations

AU (235), ID (108), MY (71), TH (28), PH (11), SG (9), TL (5), MM (3)

## Summary

The brownbanded bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum), is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae that can be found in the Indo-West Pacific from Japan to northern Australia, between latitudes 34° N and 26° S. It is regularly bred in public aquaria, and is arguably one of the sharks most suited to captivity due to its docile disposition, sedentary nature, and relatively small size. In public aquariums, these fish can live up to 25 years.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownbanded_bamboo_shark

## Photo

![Brown-banded Bamboo Shark](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-banded-bamboo-shark/medium.jpg)

Photo: george_vaughan · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361946848

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-banded-bamboo-shark?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).