Environment Friendly Tourism

Local Name

Common Name

Scientific Name

Landaa

Parrot fish

Charonia tritonis

Sangu

Triton shells

Ven

Eels

Family: Palinuridae

Ihi, ihi mas

Lobster, lobster meat

Velaa kahanbu

Turtles and their products of any nature

Hiri, Gaa, Muraka

All stony corals excluding organ pipe coral

Mushimas

Bigeye scad, under 6”

Ithaa

All pearl oysters

Gonu foo enburi

Trochus shells

Madi

Skates and rays

Koli

Puffer fish

En

Bait fish used in tuna pole and line fishery

Endheri

Black coral and all products of black corals

Order: Antipatharia

Koamas

Dolphin

Phylum: Cetacea

Bodumas

Whale and whale sharks

Phylum: Cetacea / Rhincodon typus

Gaahaka

Giant Clam

Family: Tridacnidae