San Miguel
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About this site
San Miguel is a small, very old artificial reef in the Dauin area, built from truck tyres. The tyres are overgrown with soft and hard corals that give many creatures somewhere to hide, and the maximum depth is around 20 metres.
It is an excellent site for a relaxing dive spent looking for critters. Frogfish, ghost pipefish, pipefish and harlequin shrimps are the animals divers go looking for here, and nudibranchs and flamboyant cuttlefish have also been reported.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Harlequin shrimpHarlequin shrimpReported here · unconfirmed
Hairy frogfishHairy frogfishReported here · unconfirmed
PipefishPipefishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Harlequin ShrimpHymenocera pictaConfirmed present · 3 independent sources
NudibranchNudibranchConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Ornate GhostpipefishSolenostomus paradoxusReported here · unconfirmed
Dusky NembrothaNembrotha kubaryanaReported here · unconfirmed
Anna's ChromodorisChromodoris annaeReported here · unconfirmed
Lined NembrothaNembrotha lineolataReported here · unconfirmed
Indian CaloriaCaloria indicaReported here · unconfirmed
Miller's NembrothaNembrotha milleriReported here · unconfirmed
Painted FrogfishAntennarius pictusReported here · unconfirmed
Crested NembrothaNembrotha cristataReported here · unconfirmed
Anemone Porcelain CrabNeopetrolisthes maculatusReported here · unconfirmed
Robust GhostpipefishSolenostomus cyanopterusReported here · unconfirmed
FrogfishFrogfishConfirmed present · 4 independent sources
ScorpionfishScorpionfishReported here · unconfirmed
Ghost pipefishGhost pipefishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Blacksaddle TobyCanthigaster valentiniObserved near here · iNaturalist
Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasObserved near here · iNaturalist
Spiny SeahorseHippocampus histrixObserved near here · iNaturalist
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