Scientific name: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Size: Up to 17.7 inches
Color: Metallic blue or green
Distinguishing feature: 10 tentacles (you can see 8). A large fin continues all over the mantle (which makes it looks like a cuttlefish). Translucent with blue or green metallic highlights. Speckled with white dots, very big eyes to its size.
Where did we see it: Mayotte
Scientific name: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Size: Up to 17.7 inches
Color: Metallic blue or green
Distinguishing feature: 10 tentacles (you can see 8). A large fin continues all over the mantle (which makes it looks like a cuttlefish). Translucent with blue or green metallic highlights. Speckled with white dots, very big eyes to its size.
Where did we see it: Mayotte
This squid is present in the temperate waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Like mammals or octopuses, squids have developed advanced learning skills by watching other specimens do things they didn't know. These intelligent species, which live mainly in shoals (not school).
These predators are mainly tunas, marlins and swordfish.
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.
Mammals have a horizontal tail.
Fishes have a vertical fin.
Parrotfish create a protective envelope around them when they are sleeping.
So, don't put the light on them during night dive to don't to wake them up and break this envelope.