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Oct 17
Whip Coral Goby is usually found on gorgonian sea whips and black corals, living its entire live on its host. It will remove polyps from a section of its host and use this site as a place to lay its eggs. Normally, there are only one or two gobies on a host coral, although sometimes a third or fourth will be found on a single cnidarian but avoid the mating pair. They tend to be found in...
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Oct 12
Porcelain Crabs are small, usually with body widths of less than 15 mm (0.6 in). They share the general body plan of a squat lobster, but their bodies are more compact and flattened, an adaptation for living and hiding under rocks. Porcelain crabs are quite fragile animals, and will often shed their limbs to escape predators, hence their name. Photographed in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro...
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Oct 09
Olivar’s Squat Lobster (Munida olivarae) is also known as Bug-eyed Squat Lobster or Robokon Squat Lobster. It is rarely spotted because of its small size. It is smaller than a pygmy seahorse. Bright red with yellow claws, this critter is both shy and curious. In Roach Reefs, you can actually locate about five or more Robokons in cracks and hole of a big rock. Photographed in Puerto...
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Oct 08
The Republic of Palau, is an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. Geographically part of the larger island group of Micronesia, with the country’s population of around 21,000 people spread out over 250 islands forming the western chain of the Caroline Islands. The islands share maritime boundaries with Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Federated States of...
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Oct 07
Squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms arranged in pairs and two, usually longer, tentacles. Squid are strong swimmers and certain species can ‘fly’ for short distances out of the water. The main body mass is enclosed in the mantle, which has a swimming fin along each side. These fins, unlike in other marine organisms, are not the main source of locomotion in most...
Odd sea creature found in the Philippines
Oct 05 Warning: imagejpeg(): Unable to open '/var/www/html/perfectdives/wp-content/uploads/et_temp/shark2-22298_184x184.jpg' for writing: Permission denied in /var/www/html/perfectdives/wp-includes/media.php on line 455A weird-looking sea creature called “the bubble shark” is becoming the toast of a campaign to protect an important marine corridor that lies in five provinces in the Southern Tagalog region in the Philippines. The bubble shark was found last year. Described as an “inflatable shark,” the bubble shark is thought to be a new swell shark species. It is found in the waters of Mindoro and...
Research bares risks of whale tours
Oct 04 Warning: imagejpeg(): Unable to open '/var/www/html/perfectdives/wp-content/uploads/et_temp/shark-191448_184x184.jpg' for writing: Permission denied in /var/www/html/perfectdives/wp-includes/media.php on line 455Several changes have been made at the whale shark interaction area in Barangay Tan-awan, Oslob,Cebu, with visitors now required to undergo briefing before boarding the vessels that will bring them to the area where sharks are spotted. Likewise, visitors have to shell out P200 to be able to use a snorkel in jumping into the water, while members of the local coastguard are now checking for visitors...
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Oct 03
Golden Spadefish (Platax boersii) is also known as Boer’s Batfish. There are currently five known extant species generally accepted to belong to Platax. They are one of the fish taxa commonly known as “batfish”. Members of the genus Platax are generally similar in shape to the other species in the family. Adults are rather disc-shaped fish, with laterally compressed...