During this dive I came across a strange pair of Mediterranean marine specimens. It is a European Lobster, Homarus gammarus, and a Leopard-spotted Goby that share the same cave; evidently there is a mutual convenience to which I cannot give a logical explanation. In fact, the European Lobster usually lives alone in the den that it has built and, in general, does not tolerate intrusions by others.

Il Ghiozzo leopardo, Thorogobius ephippiatus, è un pesce schivo e timido ed è considerata una specie rara da incontrare per i subacquei. Noi lo troviamo abbastanza spesso nei fondali di coralligeno che variano da 38 ai 42 metri di profondità come in questo caso. Probabilmente viene considerato raro perché vive in anfratti e buche abbastanza inaccessibili alle telecamere e quindi è proprio difficile da vedere.. ...

In these two dives we met the Leopard Goby (Thorogobius ephippiatus) a sea fish belonging to the Gobidae family. In the first we are on a 45 meter seabed made up of coral reefs that rise from a sandy bottom, in the second we are on a patch full of gorgonians but isolated in a bottom of mud and debris at a depth of about 52/53 meters ...