Chocolate Island Malapascua
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The island is located between Maya and Malapascua and is basically just a rock coming out of the water. Some trees are covering the stones and birds made the island their home. From the walls of the island it slopes gently to a max. depth of 18m.
The entire slope is covered in soft and leather corals, where a lot of different nudibranchs, shrimps and crabs find their home.
Dive Activity
Potential Wildlife Sightings
Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 3
Alamy/imageBROKER
29 Sightings
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4
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7
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3
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1
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4
O
6
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4
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0
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 300
Alamy/Reinhard Dirscherl
Octopus
4 Sightings
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0
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0
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3
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
Alamy/Fiona Ayerst
Tiger Shark
2 Sightings
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 3000
SSI-Peter-Schinck
Nudibranch
37 Sightings
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0
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0
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2
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10
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11
J
1
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0
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1
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2
O
4
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0
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6
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 3400
Shutterstock-Shane Gross
Shrimp
33 Sightings
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2
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4
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9
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6
J
1
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0
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0
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0
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4
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7
Alamy-WaterFrame
Common Seahorse
29 Sightings
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4
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2
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0
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3
J
3
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0
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0
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5
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5
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0
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7
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 12
iStock/cinoby
Lionfish
25 Sightings
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0
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4
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9
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4
J
1
J
0
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0
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3
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0
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0
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4
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 28
Udo Kefrig
Clownfish
23 Sightings
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2
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5
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0
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7
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6
J
0
J
0
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0
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0
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3
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 130
AdobeStock-JirinaVFR
Pufferfish
18 Sightings
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6
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5
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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3
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species approx.: 7000
iStock-Michael Zeigler
Crab
18 Sightings
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3
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0
M
0
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0
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6
J
0
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0
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0
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4
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2
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3
