Scientific name: Plectorhinchus vittatus
Size: Up to 2.8 feet
Color: White, black, yellow
Distinguishing feature: White body striped with black horizontally lines, the fins are yellow. The caudal and the dorsal are dotted black.
Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, Mayotte, Maldives
Scientific name: Plectorhinchus vittatus
Size: Up to 2.8 feet
Color: White, black, yellow
Distinguishing feature: White body striped with black horizontally lines, the fins are yellow. The caudal and the dorsal are dotted black.
Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, Mayotte, Maldives
This fish can be solitary or grouped in a shoal of several individuals (a few tens).
This fish takes its name from two points: diagram because of the pattern on its body and oriental for its presence in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean.
The whale shark is the largest fish in the world!
Some whales are larger, but they are mammals, not fish!
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.)
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.
