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The epaulette shark is a small Australian and New Guinean carpet shark, notable for walking over reef flats with paddle-like fins and for its black shoulder spots.
The brownbanded bamboo shark is a small Indo-West Pacific carpet shark, described in 1838 and often bred in public aquariums.
The whitespotted bamboo shark is a nocturnal Indo-Pacific carpet shark, described in 1830 and recorded in a 2002 virgin birth case.
The grey bamboo shark is a Vulnerable carpet shark of the Indo-West Pacific, described in 1838 and growing to about 74 cm.
The speckled carpetshark is a northern and western Australian bamboo shark, notable for living on shallow coral reefs and reaching about 79 cm in length.
The Arabian carpetshark is a small reef-dwelling bamboo shark from the Persian Gulf to western India, described in 1980.
The hooded carpetshark is a Papua New Guinea bamboo shark, notable for its dark hood-like head markings and for reaching about 75 cm in shallow reef habitats.
The Papuan epaulette shark is a southern Papua New Guinea bamboo shark, notable for its restricted range and for being described by Gilbert Whitley in 1967.
The Indonesian speckled carpetshark is a Raja Ampat bamboo shark, notable for its small rounded spots and confusion with a Papua New Guinea species described in 2010.
