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Map puffer – Pesce Palla mappa – Arothron mappa – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-19-11h22m29s887
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Map puffer - Arothron mappa

The Map puffer (Arothron mappa), also known as the Map pufferfish, Scribbled pufferfish, or Kesho-fugu, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. The map puffer is typically found in tropical and subtropical waters from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific ocean. This fish contains tetrodotoxin, a potent and deadly chemical compound used to ward off predators.
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Specklefin grouper – white-streaked grouper – Cernia maculata – Epinephelus ongus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-13-18h43m18s104
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Epinephelus ongus

Specklefin grouper,Epinephelus ongus, has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. It is found in the east African coast from Somalia to South Africa and Madagascar. It is then found in the Seychelles and the Maldives and southern India and Sri Lanka along the coasts of Thailand and Malaysia east into the Pacific Ocean as far as New Caledonia and Tonga. They are found as far north as the Ryukyu islands and Ogasawara islands in southern Japan and south to Australia
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Flathead grey mullets – Cefalo comune – Mugil cephalus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-05-20-15h52m34s268
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Flathead grey mullet - Mugil cephalus

Flathead grey mullets, Mugil cephalus, it is a fish able to withstand wide variations in salinity, in fact we find it regularly in marine waters, fresh or brackish waters. Extremely adaptable to all environments; we often find it at the mouths of rivers, in lagoon areas where sea water mixes with fresh water from the hinterland and inside bays and harbors. We met him among the roks of Castiglioncello: a well-known tourist and seaside resort near Livorno in Mediterranean sea.
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White-edge soldierfish – Pesce soldato – Myripristis murdjan – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-11-15h22m39s684
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Myripristis murdjan

White-edge soldierfish, Myripristis murdjan, is a species of soldierfish found in the Indo-Pacific. It is found at depths of 3–40 metres and inhabits sheltered coastal and offshore coral reefs, typically in turbid areas of bays or lagoons. During the day, it hides in caves or beneath ledges, while at night, it feeds on plankton. It can be found in loose aggregations, sometimes with other species of soldierfish.
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Black-blotched porcupinefish – Pesce Istrice puntinato – Diodon liturosus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-01-15h52m37s974
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Diodon liturosus

The black-blotched porcupinefish (Diodon liturosus), also known as Shortspine porcupinefish, is a member of the family Diodontidae. It is found in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific on coral and rocky reefs and in inshore waters. Other names are the blotched porcupinefish and the brown-backed porcupinefish.
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Blackwedged butterflyfish – Pesce farfalla dalla doppia sella – Chaetodon falcula – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-03-12h02m03s980
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Chaetodon falcula

Chaetodon falcula, the blackwedged butterflyfish or falcula butterflyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish a butterflay belonging to the family Chaetodontidae. It is found in the Indian Ocean. Has a white body which is marked with a number of thin vertical dark grey lines.
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Cernia a nido d’ape – Honeycomb grouper – Epinephelus merra – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-05-28-10h42m51s068
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Honeycomb grouper

The Honeycomb grouper (Epinephelus merra) is a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution where it is found in coastal and offshore reefs in shallow waters. The Honeycomb grouper is one of the most common small groupers of the Indo-Pacific. It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific.
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Coral Rabbitfish – Pesce Coniglio del corallo – Siganus corallinus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-22-12h31m08s664
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Coral Rabbitfish

The Coral Rabbitfish, (Siganus corallinus), or blue-spotted spinefoot, ocellated spinefoot or orange spinefoot, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific where it is often caught as a food fish and occasionally as an aquarium fish.
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Titan triggerfish – Pesce Balestra Titano – Giant triggerfish – Balistoides viridescens – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-05-12-15h59m08s992
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Titan triggerfish

The Titan triggerfish, Balestra titano  Giant triggerfish or Moustache triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens) is a large species of triggerfish found in lagoons and at reefs to depths of 50 m. in most of the Indo-Pacific, though it is absent from Hawaii. With a length of up to 75 centimetres. it is the largest species of triggerfish in its range ...
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Starry Toadfish – Stellate puffer – Pesce Palla Stellato – Arothron stellatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-19-14h30m33s974
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Arothron stellatus

Starry Toadfish, Arothron stellatus, also known as the stellate puffer, starry puffer or starry pufferfish, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region. Arothron stellatus is a very large pufferfish which grows up ...
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Eyed Flounder – Bothus ocellatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-05-07-10h55m15s579
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Bothus ocellatus

 Eyed Flounder (Bothus ocellatus) is a species of fish in the family Bothidae. The species is found on or near the sandy seabed in relatively shallow waters in the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, its range extending from Canada to southern Brazil ...
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Moorrish idol – Idolo moresco – zanclus cornutus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-07-16h54m28s655
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Moorish idol

The Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) is a marine fish species, the sole extant representative of the family Zanclidae in order Acanthuriformes. A common inhabitant of tropical to subtropical reefs and lagoons, the Moorish idol is notable for its wide distribution throughout the Indo-Pacific. A number of butterflyfishes (genus Heniochus) closely resemble the Moorish idol. ...
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Sweeper fish – Pesci Spazzino – Pempheris oualensis – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-28-17h36m20s942
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Sweeper fish - Pempheris oualensis

Sweepers, Pempheris oualensis Sweeper fish, are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciformes fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains about 26 species in two genera. One species (Pempheris xanthoptera) is the target of subsistence fisheries in Japan, where the fish is much ...
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Indian Ocean Oriental Sweetlips – Grugnitore orientale – Plectorhinchus orientalis – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-05-15h23m00s788
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Plectorhinchus orientalis

The Indian Ocean Oriental sweetlips (Plectorhinchus orientalis), also known as the oriental sweetlips, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips has fleshy lips ...
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Zebra tang – Pesce Chirurgo zebrato – Acanthurus polyzona – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-13-15h06m37s656
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Zebra tang

Acanthurus polyzona, commonly known as the black-barred surgeonfish or zebra tang, is a tropical fish found in coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean. It was first described in 1868 by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker, who gave it the name Rhombotides polyzona; it was later transferred to the genus Acanthurus, becoming Acanthurus polyzona. Acanthurus polyzona is a laterally flattened fish ...
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Silver Moonyfish – Pesce Luna argento – Monodactylus argenteus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-18-15h22m13s919
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Monodactylus argenteus

Monodactylus argenteus is a species of fish in the family Monodactylidae, the moonyfishes. Its common names include silver moonyfish, or silver moony, butter bream, and diamondfish. It is native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, including the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and associated estuaries, such as the Mekong Delta. This species reaches a maximum length of about. ...
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Goldspotted Rabbitfish – Pesce Coniglio dorato – Siganus punctatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-05-15h25m08s949
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Goldspotted Rabbitfish

Goldspotted Rabbitfish, Siganus punctatus, or goldspotted spinefoot, punctuated spinefoot, spotted rabbitfish, spotted spinefoot, yellow-spotted spinefoot, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It occurs in the Indo-West Pacific region. Siganus punctatus was first formally described in 1801 as ...
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Red-breasted wrasse – Tordo gola rossa – Cheilinus fasciatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-14-14h15m19s457
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Red-breasted Wrasse

The Red-breasted Wrasse (Cheilinus fasciatus) belongs Actinopterygii class, Labriformes order,Labridae family. It lives in the lagoons and coral reefs of the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea; it has also been found in Samoa, Micronesia, Seychelles, Ryukyu islands and on the coasts of East Africa. Young people prefer areas with a lot of aquatic vegetation, adults are often found in areas rich ...
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Blue-barred Parrotfish – Pesce Pappagallo fiamma – Scarus ghobban – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-21-15h59m26s441
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Blue-barred parrotfish

Blue-barred parrotfish, Scarus ghobban, also known as the Blue trim parrotfish, Cream parrotfish, Globe-headed parrotfish, Green blotched parrotfish, Yellow scale parrotfish, and Bluechin parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Scaridae. This species is blue-green to green in colour and commonly grows to approximately 46 cm. Its appearance is variable. ...
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Blackbelly Triggerfish – Rhinecanthus verrucosus – Pesce Balestra Macchiato – www,intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-10-11h22m27s477
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Blackbelly Triggerfish

Blackbelly Triggerfish (Rhinecanthus verrucosus) is a ray-finned fish in the family Balistidae found in the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It is sometimes known as the blackpatch triggerfish. The blackbelly triggerfish has a laterally compressed, deep body and a long snout. In shape it is romboidal and it grows to a maximum length of 23 cm (9.1 in) ...
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Mediterranean Cardinalfish – Re di Triglie o Pesce Cardinale – Apogon imberbis – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-17-16h38m26s969
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Cardinalfish

Cardinalfish, Apogon imberbis, or Mediterranean cardinalfish, king of the mullets, is a species of ray-finned fish, a cardinalfish belonging to the family Apogonidae. It is widely distributed in the Mediterranean and along the warm temperate and tropical eastern Atlantic coasts from Portugal south to the Gulf of Guinea and includes the Canary Islands, Madeira, ...
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Dussumier’s halfbeak – Pesce Mezzobecco – Hyporhamphus dussumieri – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-14-16h44m37s494
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Dussumier's halfbeak

Dussumier's halfbeak (Hyporhamphus dussumieri), also known as the slender garfish, lives in reefs and shallow lagoons. It is an Indo-Pacific species which is found from the Seychelles east to the Tuamotu islands, north to Hong Kong and Okinawa and south to northern Australia. They form schools which are found near the surface of lagoons and seaward reefs. ...
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Striped Eel Catfish – Pesce Gatto dei Coralli – Plotosus lineatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-01-15h48m07s822
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Striped Eel Catfish

Plotosus lineatus, commonly known as the Striped Eel Catfish, is a species of eeltail catfishes belonging to the family Plotosidae. Like most other members of the genus Plotosus. they possesses highly venomous spines that they can use to sting when threatened. The venom can cause mild to severe symptoms in humans. Plotosus lineatus is native to the Indo-Pcific but has become introduced to the Mediterranean Sea ...
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Yellowback fusilier – Fuciliere dal Dorso Giallo – Caesio xanthonota – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-04-15h03m34s154
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Yellowback Fusilier

Yellowback Fusilier (Caesio xanthonota) is a pelagic marine ray-finned fish, a fusilier belonging to the family Caesionidae. It is native to the tropical Indo-Pacific, being found in shallow water from the East African coast to Indonesia. The yellowback fusilier was first formally described 1853 by the Dutch icthyologist Pieter Bleeker with the type locality given as Batavia on Java. ...
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Permiculated Angelfish – Pesce Angelo Vermicolato – Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-23-14h58m37s690
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Vermiculated Angelfish

Vermiculated Angelfish, Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus, is a species of marine ray-finned fish a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific region. Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus has blue lips contrasting with its yellow face. There is a black vertical band which runs through the eye. The body has a cinereous area ...
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Young Yellowbelly rock cod – Dusky Grouper – Giovane Cernia bruna – Epinephelus marginatus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-10-16h43m38s055
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Young Dusky Grouper

Young Dusky Grouper, Epinephelus marginatus, the yellowbelly rock cod or yellowbelly grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. This species is the best known grouper species of the Mediterranea Sea and North Africa coast ...
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Orange-spotted spinefoot – Pesce coniglio a macchie arancioni – Siganus guttatus – Golden rabbitfish – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-22-17h38m27s740
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Orange-spotted spinefoot

Orange-spotted spinefoot (Siganus guttatus), also known as the Deepbody spinefoot, Gold-saddle rabbitfish, Golden rabbitfish, Golden-spotted spinefoot, Goldlined spinefoot or Yellowblotch spinefoot, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean ...
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Brown Surgeonfish – Pesce Chirurgo marrone – Acanthurus nigrofuscus – www.intotheblue.it-2023-11-24-15h02m58s906
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Brown Surgeonfis

Brown Surgeonfis, Acanthurus nigrofuscus, also known as the blackspot surgeonfish, brown tang, dusky surgeon, lavender tang or spot-cheeked surgeonfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, which includes the surgeonfishes, unicornishes and tangs. ...
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Dusky parrotfish – Pesce Pappagallo scuro – Scarus niger – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-21-17h41m38s331
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Dusky Parrotfish

Dusky parrotfish, Scarus niger, common names the swarthy parrotfish, and black parrotfish, is a species of parrotfish. It is in  the phylum Chordata, class Actinopterygii and family Scaridae. Like other members of its family, it has characteristic 10 dorsal soft rays, 9 dorsal spines, 9 anal soft rays, and 3 anal spines ...
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Gilt-head bream in shallow seabed – Orata nel basso fondale – Sparus aurata – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-16-16h21m27s261
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Gilt-head bream in shallow seabed

Gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758) is a bony sea and brackish water fish belonging to the Sparidae family. The name derives from the characteristic gold stripe that the fish shows between its eyes. Gilt-head bream is present throughout the Mediterranean basin and in the eastern Atlantic ...
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Mahsena emperor – Imperatore mahsena o pesce Imperatore del cielo – Lethrinus mahsena – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-09-15h00m42s220
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Mahsena emperor

Mahsena emperor, Lethrinus mahsena, common names the sky emperor, is a species of emperor fish. It grows to 65 cm in length, but is commonly found at 35 to 45 cm. This fish may be yellow to greenish-blue or olive-grey, becoming paler toward the belly. It is a non-migratory, reef-associated fish that has a high commercial value. The body of this species may be ...
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Powder-blue surgeonfish – Pesce chirurgo dalla gola bianca – Acanthurus leucosternon – www.intotheblue.it-2023-11-28-18h02m53s198
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Powder-blue surgeonfish

Powder-blue surgeonfish, Acanthurus leucosternon, commonly known as the blue surgeonfish or powder blue tang, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This species is found in the Indian Ocean. The fish can reach an average size of 23 cm in length. ...
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Scribbled Filefish – Pesce Lima – Aluterus scriptus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-18-17h15m00s175
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Scribbled Filefish

Scribbled Filefish, Aluterus scriptus, commonly known as Scrawled filefish, Broomtail filefish or Scribbled leatherjacket, is a marine fish belonging to the family Monacanthidae. This species has a circumtropical repartition, it can be found in the tropical waters from the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. ...
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Yellow-edged Lyretail Cernia Variola louti www.intotheblue.it-2023-02-20-10h42m44s302
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Yellow-edged Lyretail

Yellow-edged Lyretail (Variola louti) is a species of grouper belongs Actinopterygii class, Perciformes order and Serranidae family; also known as the lyretail grouper or the caramel cod. The yellow-edged lyretail is found from the Red Sea to South Africa and the Pitcairn Islands, as far as southern Japan and Australia. ...
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T_Salema – Salpa sarpa – Salpa – www.intotheblue.it-2022-12-16-14h17m43s107
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Salema - Salpa sarpa

Salema - Salpa sarpa - is one of the most common and easiest to meet Sparidae species in Mediterranean Sea. It is a gregarious fish that lives in held of even numerous individuals. In this video we see it in various conditions and habitats that it shares together with other spawners such as ...
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Mediterranean Parrotfish

Mediterranean Parrotfish - Sparisoma cretense - finds its ideal habitat among the cliffs of the island of Pantelleria in the Sicilian waters. In this stretch of sea it is easy to meet Parrotfish because the climatic conditions of the sea make it their favorite habitat. The Mediterranean Parrotfish (Sparisoma cretense) also known as "scaro" is a marine ...
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