The Electric Clam (Ctenoides ales) is a tropical saltwater clam usually about 100 to 200mm across. Its claim to fame is its ability to flash like a strobe light and has therefore been given names such as the electric flame scallop, disco scallop and disco clam. Interestingly, the “light” is not caused by bioluminescence, but is instead coming from reflection of the ambient light off highly reflective tissue containing nano-spheres of silica on the very outer edge of the clam’s mantle that is continually exposed and then hidden. Mesmerising! 😊
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Shot in the Lembeh Straits, December 2019.
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