I live and learn!SCUBAJENNIFER:I"m not sure why they call it that Kim...but that's it's name
I was always told they were leopard sharks...
Yes - these are great and I've seen/photographed many of them.
Your most-unusual critter from the Andaman Sea
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I was always told they were leopard sharks... Yes - these are great and I've seen/photographed many of them.
I saw a pair of needle shrimp at Shark Point last week. Here's the larger one. I don't know how "unusual" they are, but I got a kick out of seeing something different at a site I've dived repeatedly.
it has 3 common names in regular usage, the two already mentioned before and the variegated shark (have probably spelt that wrong and to be honest i am not even sure what variegated means). common names are just common usage local names. interestingly the napolean wrasse is a good example it has 7 "recognized" common names.
its pity scientific names are so damned hard to pronounce and remember
saying that - after a scrawl through the internet i would agree (wholeheartedly) that internationally zebra shark seems to be most common of these common names which was a surprise. i live and learn
its pity scientific names are so damned hard to pronounce and remember
saying that - after a scrawl through the internet i would agree (wholeheartedly) that internationally zebra shark seems to be most common of these common names which was a surprise. i live and learn
MoonWrasse
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However locally leopard shark seems to be the more common name, around Phuket IMO. Since my exposure to the real Leopard shark far predates my going to Thailand, I've found it somewhat amusing the confusion of the Zebra shark being called the Leopard shark.whitehead:
It's a funny world
Quero:
I think the unusual thing about seeing urchin shrimps is that not many divers take time to look at black longspined sea urchins and actually try to stay away from them as well as they can. There are some beautiful urchin shrimps to be found at Richelieu Rock as well (on the South Side in the rubble/sand between 14-20 meter) and if you're lucky you may even come across a badger or urchin cling fish as well.
MoonWrasse
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I never knew that shrimps lived among those spines.Quero:
http://www.edge-of-reef.com/macruri/MACstegopontoniacommensalisen.htm
So next time I get to dive there, I'll take a closer look
BTW, I couldn't find them listed in Debelius' book.
MoonWrasse:I never knew that shrimps lived among those spines.
http://www.edge-of-reef.com/macruri/MACstegopontoniacommensalisen.htm
So next time I get to dive there, I'll take a closer look
BTW, I couldn't find them listed in Debelius' book.
Look in Allen and Steen Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide, page 147, bottom right.
MORE,MORE,MORE! We need more critters!!!
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