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Papuan epaulette shark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Orectolobiformes |
Family: | Hemiscylliidae |
Genus: | Hemiscyllium |
Species: | H. hallstromi
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Binomial name | |
Hemiscyllium hallstromi
Whitley, 1967
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Range of Papuan epaulette shark (in blue) |
The Papuan epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium hallstromi, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around southern Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 7° S and 10° S, and longitude 144° E and 146° E. Its length is up to 75 cm.
Reproduction is oviparous.
The shark is named in honor of philanthropist Edward Hallstrom (1886–1970), a trustee and chairman of Taronga Zoological Park, where holotype and paratype were kept alive in captivity. [2]
Hemiscyllium hallstromi |
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Papuan epaulette shark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Orectolobiformes |
Family: | Hemiscylliidae |
Genus: | Hemiscyllium |
Species: | H. hallstromi
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Binomial name | |
Hemiscyllium hallstromi
Whitley, 1967
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Range of Papuan epaulette shark (in blue) |
The Papuan epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium hallstromi, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around southern Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 7° S and 10° S, and longitude 144° E and 146° E. Its length is up to 75 cm.
Reproduction is oviparous.
The shark is named in honor of philanthropist Edward Hallstrom (1886–1970), a trustee and chairman of Taronga Zoological Park, where holotype and paratype were kept alive in captivity. [2]
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