Scientific name: Amblyeleotris steinitzi
Size: Up to 3.1 inches
Color: Beige and brown
Distinguishing feature: Body is tapered, beige and streaked by 5 brown bands slightly diagonally. Fins are not very visible. Eyes are lined with black and white.
Where did we see it: Zanzibar, Mayotte, Maldives
Scientific name: Amblyeleotris steinitzi
Size: Up to 3.1 inches
Color: Beige and brown
Distinguishing feature: Body is tapered, beige and streaked by 5 brown bands slightly diagonally. Fins are not very visible. Eyes are lined with black and white.
Where did we see it: Zanzibar, Mayotte, Maldives
The goby family is the largest family of fish with over 1500 species.
Most live on the sandy bottom, near a burrow that is often shared with a shrimp that maintain it. The goby warns when a danger occurs, allowing the shrimp to hide and the goby to join it.
It's with the Djeddah snapping shrimp that this goby shares his home.
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.
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.
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.