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Pennaria disticha – Idroide piumato – Christmas tree hydroid – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-05-20-11h46m37s389
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Christmas tree hydroid - Idroide piumato

Pennaria disticha, also known as the Christmas tree hydroid, is a species of athecate hydroid in the family Pennariidae. Colonies are common in the Mediterranean Sea growing on rocks close to the surface. This species has been used in research into prey capture. Colonies of Pennaria disticha consist of numerous much-branched stems up to 30 cm high. The branching system is alternate.
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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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Basket Star on Savalia savaglia – Stella Gorgone su Savalia savaglia – Astrospartus mediterraneus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-22-17h44m18s711
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Astrospartus mediterraneus

The Basket Star (Astrospartus mediterraneus), (Risso,1826) is a echinoderm belongs to the phylum Echinodermata, to the Ophiuroidea class, Gorgonocephalidae family. The Basket Star is characterized by five tentacles, each branched several times, with which it clings to the branches of the soft corals and which are opened at night to feed on. The body has a diameter that can reach 8 centimeters, ...
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Mauve stinger – Pelagia noctiluca – Medusa luminosa mediterranea – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-04-01-19h30m58s115
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Mauve Stinger - Pelagia noctiluca

Mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca, is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia. It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, but other common names are purple-striped jelly (causing potential confusion with chrysaora colorata), purple stinger, purple people eater, purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish  ...
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Special mission mediterranean Spiny Lobster – Missione speciale Aragosta – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-04-22-15h21m27s988
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Special mission mediterranean Spiny lobster

It is late August and Summer is the period in which many marine organisms prepare for procreation. We have therefore decided to reach a deep Mediterranean coral reef, over 7 miles from the coast, knowing that, with a bit of luck, we will find lobsters. We chose a deep dive because at that depth it is more difficult for fishermen to lower their fishing nets and therefore to be more ...
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Spotted Eagle Ray – Aquila di Mare Maculata – Aetobatus narinari – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-13-16h17m58s412
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Spotted Eagle ray

Spotted Eagle Ray, (Aetobatus narinari), is a cartilagionus fish of the eagle ray family Myliobatidae. As traditionally recognized, it is found globally in tropical regions, including the Atlantic, pacific and Indian Oceans. Spotted eagle rays are most commonly seen alone, but occasionally swim in groups. They are ovoviviparous, the female retaining the eggs then releasing the young ...
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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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Brown Mesh Sea Star – Stella marina Nardoa – Nardoa galatheae – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-06-09h22m08s362
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Brown Mesh Sea Star

The Brown Mesh Sea Star, Nardoa galatheae, is a genus of sea stars in the family Ophidiasteridae. The Ophidiasteridae are a family of sea stars with about 30 genera. Occurring both in the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, ophidiasterids are greatest in diversity in the Indo-Pacific. Many of the genera in this family exhibit brilliant colors and patterns ...
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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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White Gorgonian – Gorgonia bianca – Gorgonia verrucosa – Eunicella verrucosa – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-11-16h24m18s596
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White Gorgonian

White Gorgonian, Eunicella verrucosa, or broad sea fan, pink sea fan, warty gorgonian, is a species of colonia Gorgonian "soft coral" in the family Gorgoniidae. It is native to the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea. Eunicella verrucosa has a densely branching, fan-like stem ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Mediterranean coral reef – Barriera corallina mediterranea – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-22-10h59m14s373
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Mediterranean coral reef

Savalia savaglia, commonly known as Gold coral, is a species colonial in the family Parazoanthidae.  This organism is commonly called "false black coral". It owes its name to its ability to produce a dark-colored horny skeleton, usually blackish. The colonies are generally settled on pre-existing gorgonians skeletons and can grow ...
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Comb jelly – Ctenoforo di vetro – Bolinopsis vitrea – www.intotheblue.it-2024-06-24-14h05m30s615
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Comb jelly

Comb jelly, Bolinopsis vitrea, is a species of comb jelly in the family Bolinopsidae, It is found in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea,it  was first described by the American biologist Louis Agassiz in 1860. In Florida waters, Bolinopsis vitrea is the most common ctenophore Ctenophora comprise a phylum of marine invertebrates, ...
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Salp – Taliaceo salpa – www.intotheblue.it-2024-06-24-15h06m30s451
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Salp

During a decompression stop, after having carried out a scuba diving, the surface sea current carried with it numerous transparent marine organisms. They were various Ctenophores that I managed to identify. What you are seeing in the video is a salp. ...
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Ascidia mentula – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-20-14h48m31s665
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Ascidia mentula

Ascidia mentula is a species of solitary tunicate. It is found in the north east Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. It occurs round the coasts of Britain but is seldom seen on the east coast of England or Scotland. Ascidia mentula has a tough leathery envelope or tunic composed partly of cellulose. ...
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Yellow Gorgonian – yellow sea whip – Gorgonia gialla – Eunicella cavolinii – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-21-16h38m21s019
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Yellow Gorgonian Eunicella cavolinii

Yellow Gorgonian, Eunicella cavolinii, commonly known as the yellow sea whip, is a species of colonial soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae. It is native to parts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Ionian Sea where it is a common species. Eunicella cavolinii is a much-branched soft coral growing to a height of about 50 cm. ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Dorid nudibranch – Doride dipinto – Felimare picta – www.intotheblue.it-2024-02-08-11h48m18s079
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Dorid nudibranch Felimare picta

Felimare picta is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk i the family Chromodorididae. Atlantic Ocean species of Hypselodoris were all transferred to Felimare following a DNA phylogeny. Several species were formerly considered to be subspecies of Felimare picta but several have now been elevated to species rank ...
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Blue Crab – Granchio blu o Granchio reale blu o Granchio azzurro – Callinectes sapidus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-06-01-15h33m38s846
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Blue Crab invasion

Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, or Atlantic blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and introduced internationally. Callinectes sapidus is of considerable culinary and economic importance in the United States, particularly in Louisiana, the Carolinas, the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and New Jersey ...
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young Yellowmouth Barracuda – giovane Barracuda mediterraneo – Sphyraena viridensis – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-31-11h04m07s970
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Young Yellowmouth barracuda

Young yellowmouth barracuda, Sphyraena viridensis, or yellow barracuda is a predatory ray finned fish from the family Sphyraenidae, the barracudas, which is found in the warmer waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is often confused with the European barracuda Sphyraena sphyraena. ...
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Picarel fish – Spicara smaris – Zerro – www.intotheblue.it-2023-04-29-17h01m03s829
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Picarel fish Spicara smaris

Spicara smaris, (Zerro in Italy) one of the picarels, is a species of ray-finned fish native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. It grows to a maximum length of about 20 cm; females are usually smaller than males. Spicara smaris was removed from the family Centracanthidae and placed ...
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Cuckoo Wrasse male – Tordo fischietto maschio – Labrus mixtus – www.intotheblue.it-2023-04-25-15h50m04s181
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Cuckoo Wrasse male

Cuckoo wrasse (Labrus mixtus), belongs to the class Osteichthyes, subclass Actinopterygii, order Perciformes, suborder Percoidei, family Labridae. The cuckoo wrasse is a protogynous hermaphrodite, and females can change sex into males, a process which takes around seven months. In this short and interesting video ...
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Spotted Eagle Ray – Aquila di Mare Maculata – Aetobatus narinari – www.intotheblue.it -2023-05-08-10h11m11s299
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Spotted Eagle Ray

Spotted Eagle Ray, (Aetobatus narinari), is a cartilagionus fish of the eagle ray family, Myliobatidae. As traditionally recognized, it is found globally in tropical regions, including the Atlantic, pacific and Indian Oceans. Spotted eagle rays are most commonly seen alone, but occasionally swim in groups. They are ovoviviparous ...
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Female Cuckoo Wrasse Tordo Fischietto femmina Labrus mixtus www.intotheblue.it-2023-04-24-15h36m46s814
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Female Cuckoo Wrasse

Female Cuckoo Wrasse, (Labrus mixtus), belongs to the class Osteichthyes, subclass Actinopterygii, order Perciformes, suborder Percoidei, family Labridae. The cuckoo wrasse is a species of wrasse  native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Norway to Senegal, including the Azores and Madeira. It is also found in the Mediterranean Sea ...
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Cigar jellyfish – Medusa Olindia – Olindias phosphorica – www.intotheblue.it-2023-02-18-16h31m46s238
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Cigar jellyfish Olindias phosphorica

Olindias phosphorica, or Cigar jellyfish, is a species of hydrozoan from the central and eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean sea is a predominantly warm body of water, thus Olindias phosphorica is a warm-water Jellyfish. Global warming has facilitated the proliferation of the species throughout the Mediterranean sea ...
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Bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix Pesce serra-2023-08-21-18h54m01s033
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Bluefish

Bluefish is the "predator" in fact it feeds exclusively on other fish and cephalopods. Its favorite preys are mullets even if in this video we see it hunting in a few meters of depth, trying to capture salemas present in numerous specimens in a herd. As always, the encounter is lightning-fast and lasts only a few seconds, in fact the Serras do not let themselves. ...
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Purple Jellyfish

Given today's many views on an article from a while ago: Purple Luminous Jellyfish - Pelagia noctiluca, we're publishing today's meeting with the infamous Purple Jellyfish. On other occasions we were able to get closer to the jellyfish and film it much closer. As you can see today it wasn't really the case since our jellyfish had completely outward ...
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Red Lionfish
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Red Lionfish

Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a fish venomous who live coral reef  in the family Scorpaenidae, order Scorpaeniformes. Pterois volitansis natively found in the Indo-Pacific region, but has become an invasive problem in the Carribbean Sea, as well as along the East Coast of the United States. ...
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Spotted sea hare

Spotted sea hare, Aplysia dactylomela, is a species of large sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod in the Aplysiidae family, the sea hares. As traditionally defined, this species of sea hare was cosmopolitan, being found in almost all tropical and warm temperate seas, including the Mediterranean Sea ...
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Spirografo Bispira viola
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Peacock worm

The video was made at a depth between 52 and 55 meters. The Mediterranean coral reefs are submerged oases rich in biodiversity: inside them fish, crustaceans, juveniles, sponges of various species, gorgonians of Paramuricea clavata and many marine microorganisms find refuge ...
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Dorado or Mahi-mahi

Dorado or mahi-mahi, or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado (not to be confused with Salminus brasiliensis, a fresh water fish) and dolphin, it is one of two members of the family Coryphaenidae, ...
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Loggerhead sea Turtle

The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), is a species of oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family Cheloniidae. The average loggerhead measures around 90 cm in carapace length when fully grown. The adult loggerhead sea turtle weighs approximately 135 kg.
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Spotted Eagle Ray

Spotted Eagle Ray, (Aetobatus narinari), is a cartilagionus fish of the eagle ray family, Myliobatidae. As traditionally recognized, it is found globally in tropical regions, including the Atlantic, pacific and Indian Oceans. Spotted eagle rays are most commonly seen alone, but occasionally swim in groups.
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Fish that defend their territory - Labrus mixtus

In this article we want to dispel some myths for which some species of fish approach the diver to get acquainted or otherwise. In the video we actually see a Cuckoo wrasse female Whistle Thrush (Labrus mixtus) approaching the diver, or rather the two divers, until he is touched. This behavior is due to the fact that the fish is simply defending its territory, ...
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Trumpet anemone Aiptasia mutabilis

In this video we filmed Aiptasia mutabilis more commonly known as Brown Anemone. In the Mediterranean Sea it is less widespread than its similar Anemonia sulcata, Anemonia viridis or Actinia sulcata, the common Anemone. The curiosity of this meeting is that we found it completely open ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Peacock blenny - Salaria pavo

Peacock blenny Salaria Pavo Lipophrys pavo is a common blennidae throughout the Mediterranean sea ...
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Le Acciughe del Mediterraneo – The Mediterranean Anchovy – Engraulis encrasicolus – intotheblue.it – vlcsnap-2019-05-13-17h35m33s433
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The Mediterranean Anchovy

The Mediterranean Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) is a typical pelagic fish that can also be found at a great distance from the coasts, which it approaches in May-June for reproduction. Usually in the hot season it is not encountered at depths greater than 50 meters,
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Moray eel - Muraena helena

Moray eel (Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758) is a marine bony fish belonging to the Muraenidae family. It is a sedentary coastal species. During the day it is almost always intact in holes or in cracks in the rocks, with the head just protruding.
Andrea Cirivasi
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