Top 10 Saltwater Aquarium Fishes
The Most Recommended Fish for Saltwater Aquariums and Tips for Choosing Your Fish
Marine fish are among the top 10 saltwater aquarium fishes, most colorful and beautiful creatures in the hobby, and with hu...
Feather Star Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Feather Star Crab (Tiaramedon spinosum) is not commonly seen in Tanzanian waters and this is likely a function of both their cryptic habits and camouflage making them difficult to spot and their rarity....
Spider Decorator Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Spider Decorator Crab (Camposcia retusa) is also known as the Blunt Decorator Crab, the Velcro Crab and the Tarantula Crab. Being well camouflaged they are difficult to spot and are probably easier foun...
Pygmy Squid- Facts and Photographs
Pygmy squid are technically not squid although they closely resemble them. Instead they fall in the genus Idiosepius. Very little is known of their habits and these found in Tanzania among and alongside the...
Spotted Reef Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Spotted Reef Crab (Carpilius maculatus) is also known as the Seven-eleven crab, the Dark-finger coral crab, and the Large spotted crab. They are not commonly seen in Tanzanian waters, probably due to th...
Ridged Swimming Crab – Facts and Photographs
The Ridged swimming crab (Charybdis natator) is also known as the wrinkled swimming crab or rock crab. Because of the ridges on their back they are relatively easy to identify. There are two subspecies, the...
Convex Reef Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Convex reef crab (Carpilius convexus) is also known as the Round-back Coral Crab. They are fairly common at night in the waters off Dar es Salaam but are seldom seen out during the day. Large specimens ...
Hairy Coral Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Hairy Coral Crab (Cymo andreossyi) is also known as the Furry Coral Crab . Being small and well camouflaged they are difficult to spot and are probably best found at night when their eyes reflect light ...
Harlequin Swimming Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Harlequin Swimming Crab, Lissocarcinus laevis is not easy to see because of its size and one has to look carefully to spot them.
They are decapod crustaceans in the Infraorder Brachyura, in the Portu...
Bobtail Squid- Facts and Photographs
Bobtail squid are also known as Dumpling Squid. They are exceptionally cute looking little cephalopods and are fascinating to watch. They are in the order Sepiolida and are closely related to cuttlefish al...
Olive Purse Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Olive Purse Crab, Leucosia pubescens does not seem to be common in Tanzanian waters and indeed does not seem to be recorded here. Hopefully the identification is correct.
They are decapod crustaceans...
Dragon Moray Eel-Facts and Photographs
The Dragon Moray Eel, Enchelycore pardalis is also known as the Dragon Eel and the Leopard Moray Eel. The reference to Leopard comes from their scientific name, with paradalis meaning leopard in Greek. The...
Unicorn Shrimp- Facts and Photographs
The Unicorn Shrimp (Genus Plesionika) are also known as the Narwhal Shrimp. They obtain their name from the proportionally very long rostrum spine extending out quite far from the carapace. The rostrum ha...
Yellow Porcelain Anemone Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Yellow Porcelain Anemone Crab, Neopetrolisthes alobatus is not common in Tanzanian waters. In several years of searching we have only found five specimens.
They are decapod crustaceans in the Porcell...
Reticulated Hinge Beak Shrimp- Facts and Photographs
The Reticulated Hinge-beak Shrimp (Cinetorhynchus reticulatus) is also known as the Green-eye Dancing Shrimp. They are fairly rare in Tanzanian waters and are nocturnal feeders found in deeper waters.
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Goniobranchus gleniei – Nudibranch Facts and Photographs
Goniobranchus gleniei is not very common in the waters around Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. They were initially described in Sri Lanka in 1858 by E.F Kelaart the Staff Surgeon for the British Army garrison in Tr...
Nembrotha kubaryana – Nudibranch Facts and Photographs
The Nembrotha kubaryana, also known as the Variable Neon Nudibranch or the Dusky Nembrotha, is not that common in the waters around Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. They are dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mo...
Decorator Crab- Facts and Photographs
Decorator crabs belong to the superfamily Majoidea and are also commonly known as Spider Crabs. They obtain their name from their habit of decorating their bodies with various plants and animals. This can ...
Marine Flatworms-Facts-Photographs and Video
Marine Platyhelminthes or Marine Flatworms as they are commonly known are often extremely colorful creatures. The brightly colored species are easy to spot while diving and if one is lucky, one can see them...
Stinging Sea Creatures-Textile Cone Shell
The Textile cone shell Conus textile is also known as the cloth of gold cone shell. As with all the cone shells, they are carnivorous and predatory, preying on other mollusks. In order to quickly disable t...
Porcelain Anemone Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Porcelain Anemone Crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus is also known as the Spotted porcelain crab. They are decapod crustaceans in the Porcellanidae family. Although they resemble true crabs they are actual...
Stinging Sea Creatures-Flower Urchin
The Stinging sea Flower urchin, Toxopneustes pileolus may look pretty but it is not something to be touched. When scuba divers are given their dive briefing and warned to only leave bubbles and n...
Durban Dancing Shrimp- Facts and Photographs
The Durban Dancing Shrimp (Rhynchocinetes durbanensis) is also known as the camel shrimp, camelback shrimp, candy shrimp and the hingebeak prawn. They obtain the dancing part of their name from the sidewa...
Bigfin Reef Squid- Facts Photographs and Video
The Bigfin reef squid, (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) is also known as the Oval squid. They obtain their name from the fin which almost completely circles their body. This gives them a superficial resemblance t...
Long Spined Porcupinefish – Facts and Photographs
The Long spined porcupinefish Diodon holocanthus, is also known as the Spiny Ballonfish. They can be easily confused with the Short spine porcupinefish, (Diodon liturosus) which is similar in looks but has ...
Giant Spotted Hermit Crab- Facts and Photographs
The Giant spotted hermit crab Dardanus megistos is also known as the White-spotted Hermit crab. They are one of the more colourful hermit crabs, that spend their lives in empty gastropod shells. In terms of...
Honeycomb Moray Eel-Facts and Photographs
The Honeycomb moray (Gymnothorax favagineus) also known as the leopard or laced moray is one of the larger more attractive morays.
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The Honeycomb moray eel is a light whitish brown to yellow...