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Banded Egg Cowrie

Margovula bimaculata

Habitat:

Always found with soft corals, shallow water.

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13 Comments

Carol Snow Milne 2
Carol Snow Milne 2 11 years ago

Better than a Faberge egg. Gorgeous! So unique. Great spot!

Reza Hashemizadeh
Reza Hashemizadeh 11 years ago

Fantastic !

pmbagga
pmbagga 11 years ago

gorgeous color! Very nice , well composed :)

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 11 years ago

the only of it's kind i came across Mayra. Thanks for your kind word.

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Fantastic!!

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 11 years ago

Nice series. Beautiful spotting!

YongWenKang
YongWenKang 12 years ago

nice spotting! :D

Maria dB
Maria dB 12 years ago

Oh, thanks for explaining that! :>)

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 12 years ago

You are right ARtPeNnography, without light, the color won't shown!

ARtPeNnography
ARtPeNnography 12 years ago

lighting is important in UW photography :)

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 12 years ago

Hi Nopayahnah, actually we are shooting at the SAME object as we always dove together, the picture Blogie has is without the proper lighting thus the color became blue.

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 12 years ago

Thanks whatsthefish for the ID.

Maria dB
Maria dB 12 years ago

really interesting to see this color after seeing the blue one earlier by blogie

ShaumingLo
Spotted by
ShaumingLo

Davao Del Norte, Philippines

Spotted on Jan 28, 2012
Submitted on Jan 29, 2012

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