Species details : Chiloscyllium indicum (Gmelin, 1789)

Accepted scientific name:
Chiloscyllium indicum (Gmelin, 1789) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Chiloscyllium indicum  (Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms:
Chiloscyllium colax (Meuschen, 1781) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chiloscyllium colax (Meuschen, 1781)
Chiloscyllium indicum phymatodes Bleeker, 1852 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chiloscyllium indicum phymatodes Bleeker, 1852
Chiloscyllium phymatodes Bleeker, 1852 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chiloscyllium phymatodes Bleeker, 1852
Chiloscyllium plagiosum (non Anon., 1830) (misapplied name) 1 literature reference for Chiloscyllium plagiosum (non Anon., 1830)
Chiloscyllium tuberculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chiloscyllium tuberculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Chilosycylum indicum (Gmelin, 1789) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chilosycylum indicum (Gmelin, 1789)
Chyloscyllium indicum (Gmelin, 1789) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chyloscyllium indicum (Gmelin, 1789)
Hemiscyllium colax (Meuschen, 1781) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Hemiscyllium colax (Meuschen, 1781)
Scyliorhinus dentatus (Blainville, 1816) (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Scyliorhinus dentatus (Blainville, 1816)
Scyliorhinus tuberculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Scyliorhinus tuberculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Scyliorhinus variegatus (Blainville, 1816) (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Scyliorhinus variegatus (Blainville, 1816)
Squalus caudatus Gronow, 1854 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus caudatus Gronow, 1854
Squalus colax Meuschen, 1781 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus colax Meuschen, 1781
Squalus dentatus Blainville, 1816 (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus dentatus Blainville, 1816
Squalus denticulatus Shaw, 1804 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus denticulatus Shaw, 1804
Squalus gronovianus Shaw, 1804 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus gronovianus Shaw, 1804
Squalus indicus Gmelin, 1789 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus indicus Gmelin, 1789
Squalus tuberculatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus tuberculatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Squalus variegatus Blainville, 1816 (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Squalus variegatus Blainville, 1816
Common names:
Common name Transliteration Language Country
Haysan - Arabic Oman Click here to show the literature
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Lahay - Arabic Oman Click here to show the literature
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قرش-قدّ أنيق - Arabic - Click here to show the literature
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Slank bambushaj - Danish Denmark Click here to show the literature
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Slanke bamboehaai - Dutch Netherlands Click here to show the literature
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Indian cat shark - English India Click here to show the literature
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Ridge-back cat shark - English United Kingdom Click here to show the literature
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Ridge-back cat-shark - English India(India) Click here to show the literature
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Slender bamboo shark - English South Africa Click here to show the literature
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Slender bambooshark - English - Click here to show the literature
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Slender bambooshark - English India Click here to show the literature
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Slender bamooshark - English Malaysia Click here to show the literature
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Intianpartahai - Finnish Finland Click here to show the literature
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Requin-chabot élégant - French - Click here to show the literature
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Musia - Gujarati India(Gujarat) Click here to show the literature
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મુસિયા Musia Gujarati India
Tenjiku zamae - Japanese Japan Click here to show the literature
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Tenjikuzame - Japanese Japan Click here to show the literature
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Chlarm sangha - Khmer Cambodia Click here to show the literature
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Cucut tekeh - Malay (individual language) Indonesia Click here to show the literature
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Yu bodoh - Malay (individual language) Malaysia Click here to show the literature
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Yu pasir - Malay (individual language) Malaysia Click here to show the literature
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Yu tokeh - Malay (individual language) Malaysia Click here to show the literature
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Ettee - Malayalam India Click here to show the literature
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എറ്റി - Malayalam India
印度斑竹鯊 Yin du ban jhu sha ,yin du gou jiao Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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印度斑竹鲨 - Mandarin Chinese - Click here to show the literature
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印度斑竹鲨 Yin du ban zhu sha Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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印度狗鮫 - Mandarin Chinese Taiwan Click here to show the literature
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印度狗鲛 Yin du gou jiao Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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沙条 Sha tiao Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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沙條 - Mandarin Chinese Taiwan Click here to show the literature
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狗沙 Gou sha Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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狗沙 - Mandarin Chinese Taiwan Click here to show the literature
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長鰭斑竹鯊 Chang ci ban jhu sha Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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长鳍斑竹鲨 Chang ci ban zhu sha Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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Balavala - Marathi India Click here to show the literature
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Mushi - Marathi India(Maharashtra) Click here to show the literature
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तोळ - Marathi India
मुशी - Marathi India
Kana mora - Sinhalese Sri Lanka Click here to show the literature
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Bamboa elegante - Spanish - Click here to show the literature
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Pating - Tagalog Philippines Click here to show the literature
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Coruhgun-sorrah - Tamil Sri Lanka Click here to show the literature
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Corungum sorrah - Tamil India Click here to show the literature
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கொருங்கம் சுரா - Tamil India
Bokee sorrah - Telugu India Click here to show the literature
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Ra sorrah - Telugu India Click here to show the literature
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Chalarm Gob - Thai Thailand Click here to show the literature
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Cá Nhám Ấn độ - Vietnamese Viet Nam Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Elasmobranchii FishBase
Order Orectolobiformes FishBase
Family Hemiscylliidae FishBase
Genus Chiloscyllium FishBase
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Arabian Sea to India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Taiwan, and Solomon Islands. Probably occurring in Korea and Japan.
Lifezones: Brackish,freshwater,marine
Additional data: -
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 19-May-2014
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=5900
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:27c9330e-c365-11e4-869f-239583ce8323:col20150401