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Big mediterranean Barrel jellyfish – Medusa mediterranea Polmone di mare – Rhizostoma pulmo – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-10-24-16h33m32s078
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Big mediterranean Barrel jellyfish

Big mediterranean Barrel jellyfish, Rhizostoma pulmo, It typically is up to 40 cm. in diameter, but can exceptionally reach 150 cm. or larger, making it the largest jellyfish in British waters, is moderately venomous but not as deadly as other species. Effects include a burning sensation on the skin, dermatitis, and ulcers which confirms it is toxic to humans. However, it does not pose a serious threat to humans.
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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.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Pulsanting Xenid Coral – Corallo Xenia Pulsante – Heteroxenia fuscescens – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-12-16h50m53s825
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Pulsanting Xenid - Heteroxenia fuscescens

The pulsating xenid (Heteroxenia fuscescens) is a species of soft coral in the family Xeniidae. The polyps of Heteroxenia fuscescens grow to form large clumping colonies up to 60 centimetres (24 in) across. Its polyp stalks are approximately 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long, each stalk ending in a ring of large feathery pinnate tentacles, eight per polyp, as is typical of octocorals. Polyps pulsate rhythmically around 40 times/ minute, moving their tentacles in a "pumping" or "pulsating" fashion.
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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.
Stefano
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Serpent Starfish – Brittle Starfish – Stella Serpentina liscia – Ophioderma longicauda – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-05-20-14h41m28s121
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Ophioderma longicauda

Among the many starfish that inhabit the Mediterranean Sea we find the funny Ofiure known  Brittle Starfish, Serpent starfish or Ophiuroid, (Ophioderma longicauda). They belong to the phylum Echinodermata, class Ophiuroidea, to the family Ophiodermatidae. The Brittle starfish is present throughout the Mediterranean Sea and generally lives hidden in the crevices of the cliffs or sheltered under rocks or debris present in the sea.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Magnificent sea Anemone – Anemone Magnifica – Heteractis magnifica – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-29-11h44m32s410
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Heteractis magnifica

Heteractis magnifica, also known by the common names Magnificent sea Anemone or Ritteri Anemone, is a species of sea anemone belonging to the Stichodactylidae family native to the Indo-Pacific area. The Magnificent sea Anemone is characterized by a flared oral disc, which reaches between 20 and 50 cm in diameter,
Stefano
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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.
Stefano
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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.
Stefano
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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.
Stefano
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Christmas tree hydroid – Idroide piumato – Pennaria disticha – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2020-01-29-14h08m22s252
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Pennaria disticha

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.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Precious coral of Mediterranean Sea – Red Coral – Corallo rosso del Mediterraneo – Corallium rubrum – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-30-19h04m08s752
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Precious coral of Mediterranean Sea

Precious coral, (Corallium rubrum), or Red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is used for making jewelry.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Colonial Stony Coral – Dipsastraea speciosa – Corallo Pietroso Coloniale – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-17-10h38m40s330
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Dipsastraea speciosa

Dipsastraea speciosa (previously called Favia speciosa) is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Merulinidae. It is found in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans. Dipsastraea speciosa has rounded to very elongated corallites, with diameters of 10 to 15 mm.
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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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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 ...
Stefano
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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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Blue damselfish Chromis chromis Castagnole blu intotheblue.it_T-2025-07-01-18h52m22s877
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Castagnole blu

Even in this summer of 2025, like every summer, we witness the birth and growth of the Black Damselfish, Chromis chromis, the only one of its kind Pomacentridi - Pomacentridae - in the Mediterranean Sea. In these sequences we see it in its shining electric blue livery, when the little fish are still small, a few weeks after the hatching of the eggs laid in winter, spring by the females and guarded by the male until ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Coral reef of Oslob in the Philippines – Barriera corallina a Oslob nelle Filippine – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-12-10h30m20s130
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Coral reef of Oslob in the Philippines

The video you are watching was taken in a coral reef in Oslob, Philippines. The coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups. ...
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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 ...
Stefano
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Blow lugworm egg – Arenicola marina egg – Uovo di Arenicola marina – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-06-09-14h49m45s964
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Blow lugworm egg Arenicola marina

The blow lugworm egg, Arenicola marina, also known as sandworm, is a large species of marine worm. Its coiled castins are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide but the animal itself is rarely seen except by those who, from curiosity or to use as fishing bait, dig the worm out of the sand. In the video I made you can see a egg blow lugworm,. ...
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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 ...
Stefano
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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, ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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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 ...
Stefano
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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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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  ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Black Feather starfish – Giglio di mare – Stella marina piumata nera – Crinoidi – Crinoids – www.intotheblue.it-2023-11-30-16h11m53s102
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Black feather starfish

Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea, one of the classes of the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes the starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers. Those crinoids which, in their adult form, are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms are called feather stars or comatulids, ...
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Sarcophyton ehrenbergi and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-01-11h03m13s663
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Sarcophyton ehrenbergi and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum

Sarcophyton ehrenbergi  and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum, Marenzeller 1886 are a octocorals of the Alcyoniidae family, commonly referred to as Leather Soft Mushroom, Slimy Leather Coral, Fleshy soft coral. A colony of leathery coral is stiff, hard and inflexible. It is composed of tiny polyps projecting from a shared leathery tissue. Members of the family may have ...
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Humpback Whales of Samaná – Balene Megattera di Samaná – Megaptera novaeangliae – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-04-08-11h20m29s207
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Humpback Whales of Samaná

I went to the Samaná Peninsula, in Santo Domingo, to film the Humpback Whales in one of the world's breeding grounds for these whales. During this period, the Humpback Whales stay until the welps acquire, after the nursing period, their autonomy, but above all to protect them from the Orcas, their main predators. The province is on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the northeastern part of ...
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Octopus in den – Polpo in tana – Octopus vulgaris – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-05-05-13h08m20s562
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Octopus in den

In this short video we show you a "crafty octopus". That these animals are very intelligent is now well known to everyone; in this case the octopus he are organized itself with two dens close to each other. But if we carefully observe the video we can think that it is the same den with two exits, the main one (the one with all the grouped shells that the octopus generally uses to protect itself) and the secondary one that could be the "emergency exit". ...
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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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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 ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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