Common names
Halmahera Epaulette Shark

Short Description
Original diagnose after ALLEN, ERDMANN & DUDGEON, 2013 [19518]: "A unique colour pattern, particularly a light brown background colour with numerous clusters of mainly 2-3 dark polygonal spots, widely scattered white spots in the matrix between dark clusters, relatively few (< 10), large dark spots on the interorbital/snout region, pair of large dark marks on ventral surface of head, and fragmented post-cephalic mark consisting of a large U-shaped dark spot with more or less continuous white margin on lower half, followed posteriorly by vertical row of three, smaller clusters of 2-3 polygonal dark marks."; total vertebral centra 195;

Distribution
satellite islands off the west coast of Halmahera, Indonesia and in Weda Bay in South Halmahera [19518];

Biology
10 m depth, coral reef (types) [19518];

Size / Weight / Age
max male: 681 mm TL; max female: 656 mm TL (types) [19518];

Habitat
marine; depth range 10 m depth (types) [19518];

Dentition
teeth pavement-like, composed of numerous rows; individual teeth broad-based with single posteriorly-directed cusp, the cusps of innermost rows more developed [19518]

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=13524;