Scientific name: Tridacna maxima
Size: Up to 24 inches
Color: Colorful (blue, green, purple)
Distinguishing feature: Asymmetrical white shell and elongated with a lateral view. Possessing generally 5 (up to 7) ribs. Many short and tight scales. Skin wide and often blue.
Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, French polynesia, Mayotte, Maldives, Raja Ampat, Egypt
Scientific name: Tridacna maxima
Size: Up to 24 inches
Color: Colorful (blue, green, purple)
Distinguishing feature: Asymmetrical white shell and elongated with a lateral view. Possessing generally 5 (up to 7) ribs. Many short and tight scales. Skin wide and often blue.
Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, French polynesia, Mayotte, Maldives, Raja Ampat, Egypt
During the day, he lets appear his skin to ensure photosynthesis.
It is able to close it shell very quickly, breaking anything that would find half in the shell.
It's a species that is on the red list, particularly because of the consumption of its flesh, which is now prohibited for sale.
We can hear the bull shark is very dangerous because of attacks near La Réunion island.
However, tens of them are living at 600 feet from the famous beach of Playa Del Carmen in Mexico. And there are no attacks.
The whale shark is the largest fish in the world!
Some whales are larger, but they are mammals, not fish!
The tiger shark has slender marks similars to the lines of tigers, hence its name.
When it is juvenile, these marks are round and not vertical. They change when it grows.