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male22501.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Darioconus ganensis is moderately common in shallow water.	male22502.jpg Sort order:     Active:  A single individual of Talparia talpa was encountered several times on both trips, in the shallow lagoon of Funamadua. During the three months interval, it had moved approximately fifty meters from the place it was first spotted.	male22503.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Chicoreus ramosus is abundant at depths not reached by local fishermen.	male22504.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Mauritia histrio is not rare in the shallow lagoon. This subadult individual was observed on both trips. On the second encounter, it had just formed its characteristic net pattern.	male22505.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Mauritia histrio, one of many adult specimens thriving in the lagoon of Funamadua.
male22506.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Naria helvola was seen only on a few occasions, in a confined area of the lagoon.	male22507.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Lambis lambis, well-camouflaged and quite abundant in shallow and deeper water.	male22508.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Lambis lambis, the ventral side is beautifully orange and purple colored.	male22509.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Erronea caurica ssp. nov. This remarkable population from the Maldives has never been named. It is quite common in shallow water.	male22510.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Terebra, mating couple
male22511.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Serpulorbis growing in a colony oc Acropora. In some areas, this filter feeding gastropod is abundant.	male22512.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Tridacna squamosa, one of approximately thirty individuals living in the shallow lagoon of Funamadua. All specimens are of an intermediate size or smaller, indicating a maximum age of four years.	male22513.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Bistolida rubiginosa. This was an unexpected encounter in shallow water near the artificial island at Funamadua. These photos are the first showing the living animal.	male22514.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Another beautiful specimen of Erronea caurica ssp. nov.	male22515.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Jana taking pictures of the reef
male22516.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Monetaria caputserpentis is an abundant cowry found in wave-swepft areas of the lagoon edge. this single specimen was observed on both trips, in the same crevice of coral.	male22517.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Large living coral colonies in deeper water. Note the near absence of fish!	male22518.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Coral colonies of approximately the same size in the shallow water. This part of the reef had been completely eradicated by bleaching in 2015.	male22519.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Funamadua Island, Gaafu Arif Atoll.	male22520.jpg Sort order:     Active:  A larger colony of Acropora, a survivor of the coral bleaching event of 2015, with a smaller colony which apparently developed after the event.
male22521.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Tridacna squamosa, dark mantle with vivid pattern formed by the symbiontic zooxanthellae.	male22522.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Rachis punctata, a common landsnail encountered after rainfalls	male22523.jpg Sort order:     Active:  The flat reef top along the shore of Funamadua is a habitat which during half of the year is completely covered in sand. Severals ecies of Netitidae and Littorinidae manage to thrive here.	male22524.jpg Sort order:     Active:  Lissachatina fulica is introduced from Africa. In the Maldives, a rather small, slender and thin-shelled variation prevails.