Basket star Astrospartus mediterraneus

It looks like a seaweed, a coral, a gorgonian but in reality it is a starfish. We are talking about the Basket starfish, Astrospartus mediterraneus. This starfish lives in close contact with the gorgonians, in particular with the Red gorgonian, Paramuricea clavata, with which it shares its habitat and food. Here where we filmed it we are at a depth of 43 meters ...

Deadly Ambushes at Sea

I shot this video in a submerged reef of Vada lighthouse near Livorno. The images show a marine life full of biodiversity typical of the Mediterranean Sea with many fish and in particular a notable presence of red Scorpionfish (Scorpaena scrofa) of various sizes and therefore of different ages. The red Scorpionfish is recognized by all the other scorpionfishes for the considerable size it reaches ...

Mediterranean Cassiopeia jellyfish

Mediterranean Cassiopeia, Cotylorhiza tuberculata, is the jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea. In the video we see a Cassiopeia jellyfish still at a rather juvenile stage of the "adult jellyfish" phase, that is, it does not yet have the characteristic "fried egg yolk" from which it also takes one of the many bizarre common names. ...

Mediterranean sea Anemone

Mediterranean sea Anemone, (Anemonia sulcata), commonly known as Venus hair, is a species of sea anemone in the Actiniidae family. It has a cylindrical body, varying in color from yellow-brown to green, from which a crown of long, slightly retractable tentacles with violet-colored ends depart. The cylindrical body can reach sizes up to about 20 cm ...

Anemone di rena - Condylactis aurantiaca

Meeting Golden anemone, Condylactis aurantiaca, is always a beautiful event. This anemone also known as sand actinia or sand anemone, lives throughout the Mediterranean Sea and is not always easy to find for the simple fact that divers usually prefer to dive on rocky bottoms, avoiding sandy bottoms. and mud considered less interesting ...