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Acetabularia
(Acetabularia mediterranea)
The ombrellino, with a diameter of
about one centimeter, it consisted
of a single, giant cell.
Acetabularia is un'alga annual, the
hat is formed in the spring to fall
then in late autumn. It grows
on rocks in sheltered areas |
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Calamaro
(Loligo vulgaris)
The squid live for days at very deep
and dates back to the surface at
night. It eats small fish and also
of its own similar. Mmoving the
robust side fins or reaction
expelling water dall'imbuto. |
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Castagnola
(Chromis cromis)
Clouds of castagnole fill the surface
layers of our sea: the castagnola
lives, in fact, in groups of
hundreds of individuals who librano
above the rocks of the fund to
capture the tiny planktonic
crustaceans. |
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Cetriolo di mare
(Holoturia forskali)
It 'easy to discern the cylindrical
body of this echinoderma in meadows
of Posidonia and between the rocks.
Often hosts, in spite of himself, a
fish parasite. Along about 25
cm, if irritated expels long
filaments of white and vischiosi. |
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Coda di pavone
(Padina pavonia)
Alga common and very recognizable for
its white coloration due
all'accumularsi limestone in the
tissues. It reaches its peak of its
development in late spring, when it
arrives to 20 cm in diameter.
He lives in Cologne |
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Dente di cane
(Balanus perforatus)
Crostaceo sessile that prefers surface
waters troubled, filter the water
with a kind of rake. Is
capable of withstanding the
surfacing between the low and high
tide retaining inside of the shell a
little' of sea water. |
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Donzella maschio
(Coris julis)
The adult males reaching 25 cm. di
lunghezza. in length. After
quickly changed sex, the neo-male
takes a long time to discard the old
livery women who had young, and
completely different colors. |
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Donzella pavonina
(Thalassoma pavo)
The colouring of this lively fish is
linked to its trasgressiva sex life:
the damsel is in fact a fish
ermafrodita, who started his life as
a female to change sex, and livery,
with age '. In the photo, a
male. |
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Margherita di mare
(Parazoanthus axinellae)
Celenterato colonial. Unable to build
a skeleton, lives incrostando rocks
or other animals linked to the
seabed in areas poorly lit. Similar
in appearance to Astroides
calycularis, present, but only south
of Ponza. |
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Occhiata
(Oblada ocellaris)
It is not difficult to find groups of
hundreds of looks over the submerged
dry and rocky walls. Inconfondibili
for black spot on the tail, eat
algae and small animals living on
the rock. |
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Orecchia di mare
(Haliotis lamellosa)
Municipality under the rocks and
between the stones, has an
unmistakable shape. On the shell is
a series of holes, of which only the
last five or six are open: through
these holes the shellfish ago out of
protuberances of coat-shaped
tentacle. |
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Pelagia
(Pelagia noctiluca)
Attention to this jellyfish! I suoi
tentacoli - Its tentacles -
which can exceed meters in length -
are strongly urticant. Cells
are also poisonous sull'ombrella. If
irritated by foreign objects,
emitting a greenish light, visible
with the darkness. |
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Pomodoro di mare
(Actinia equina)
This attinia often remains out of the
water during low tide, but can not
affected by exposure to air
richiudendosi on itself and
assomigliando a tomato. With
the high tide opens the tentacles
scarlatti and urticant, in search of
food |
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Polmone di mare
(Rhizostoma pulmo)
Comunissima in our coastal waters in
summer can reach 30 cm.
diameter and over one meter in
length. And 'often accompanied
by small sugherelli that eat the
remains of fish caught by jellyfish.
The tentacles are only slightly
urticant |
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Polpo
(Octopus vulgaris)
Hunting at night and day take refuge
in his lair, recognizable by the
presence, outside of shells and
shells of crabs which is ghiotto.
And 'one of invertebrates more
intelligent and evolved. If
you caress on the head arriccia
tentacles, happy. |
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Posidonia
(Posidonia oceanica)
It 'a fanerogama, a plant with flower
and fruit. The Posidonia fittissime
grows in meadows that offer shelter
to a large quantity of fish,
crustaceans and molluscs. And 'the
real lungs of our sea, an
environment is important and
delicate. |
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Riccio "femmina"
(Paracentrotus lividus)
It eats algae, the night always return
in the same place. It covers
often debris, stones or leaves
Posidonia. Harvest by man since
ancient times, the hedgehog "female"
eat five gonads orange, the male
gonads, whitish, are not very
obvious. |
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Riccio "maschio"
(Arbacia lixula)
The organs of this hedgehog Players
are not edible because it contains a
bitter substance: for this reason it
believes, wrongly, the male of
Paracentrotus, but in truth is a
different species. |
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Salpa
(Salpa democratica)This
tunicato planctonico transparent
form of chains of several metres in
length, often in arrotolate spiral:
dozens and dozens of individuals
identical result of asessuata
reproduction of a single body. |
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Sarago fasciato
(Diplodus vulgaris)
Together with greater, pizzuto and the
Pharaoh, sarago banded is
co-munissimo in all Italian seas,
this where there are ravines and
caves where to find shelter.
Young people live in groups while
adults tend to isolate themselves.
It feeds on mollusks, crustaceans
and echinoderms. |
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Scorfano
(Scorpaena scrofa)
Equipped with a magnificent mimicry,
which contribute the numerous fleshy
lump, scorpion fish is a rocky
environment. The plugs of dorsal fin
are linked internally with a gland
velenifera and inflict wounds
dolorosissime |
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Seppia
(Sepia officinalis)
Species typical of the sandy bottom,
where interra to hide, you can find
even among the rocks. His
extraordinary mimicry is due to the
presence of cells, the cromatofori,
which contain colored pigments. If
infastidita launches clouds of ink. |
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Spugna dello spondilo
(Crambe crambe)
Sponge incrostante very common, is the
rocks since the very first metres
deep. He lives preferably in
shadows, on the walls of caves or in
the cavity, filtering the water that
inhale the tiny pores and expels the
larger holes, called osculi. |
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Stella
(Ophdiaster ophidianus)
It 'a voracious predatrice bivalve
molluscs: after opening the valve
slightly, the star estroflette the
stomach and digerisce the prey
directly in its shell. The
stars are capable of autoamputare
arms and rise by either an
individual complete. |
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Triglia di scoglio
(Mullus surmuletus)
The evening is in patrols of five to
six individuals to hunt for molluscs
and crustaceans that identifies
thanks to sensibilissimi barbigli
biancastri. He lives on rocky
seabed, while barbatus species can
be found on sandy stretches. |
