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 whale shark is the largest fish in the world!
Some whales are larger, but they are mammals, not fish!
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.
Some sharks can stay motionless on the sand (white tips reef sharks, nurse sharks, etc.).
These sharks don't have to swim to bring oxygen to their gills like other sharks (grey, hammerheads tc.)