Family Hemiscylliidae

Bamboo sharks are poorly studied in the Bangladesh region, though a total of five species have been recorded; Chiloscyllium burmensis, C. griseum, C. indicum and C. punctatum (Hoq et al. 2011; Haque et al. 2019a) and most recently C. hasseltii (Datta et al. 2020) . In this study, a total of 129 specimens of Chiloscyllium hasseltii (Figure 16) were morphologically identified. Eleven specimens that appeared morphologically consistent with Chiloscyllium arabicum (Figure 17) were also recorded, but in the absence of genetic data this warrants further investigation.