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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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Long-spine Porcupinefish – Pesce Istrice – Diodon holocanthus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-29-17h48m14s932
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Long-spine Porcupinefish

Long-spine Porcupinefish, Diodon holocanthus, also known as the freckled porcupinefish among other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae. The Long-spine Porcupinefish is pale in color with large black blotches and smaller black spots; these spots becoming fewer ...
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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 ...
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Cushion sea star – Stella cuscino – Culcita schmideliana – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-05-17h12m40s129
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Cushion sea star Culcita schmideliana

Cushion sea star, Culcita schmideliana, commonly known as the spiny cushion star, is a species of pin-cushion star which looks more like a hedgehog without its spines than the starfish we generally know. It has a variety of base colors and often patches of a different color. It is pentagonal in shape ...
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Great Barracuda – Grande Barracuda – Sphyraena barracuda – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-13-17h42m40s792
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Great Barracuda Sphyraena barracuda

Great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), also known as the Giant barracuda, beloging Actinipterygii class,  Scombriformes order, Sphyraenidae family. The great barracuda is present in tropical to warm temperate waters, in subtropical parts of the Indian, Red Sea, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, from mangrove areas ...
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Black Seabream – Tanuta o Cantaro – Spondyliosoma cantharus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-23-14h56m27s056
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Black Seabream Spondyliosoma cantharus

Black Seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus) is a protogynous species of Sparidae fishes, recognisable by their oval, compressed body and jaws, which contain 4–6 rows of slender teeth that are larger at the front. They are silvery in colour with blue and pink tinges and broken longitudinal gold lines. ...
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Yellow scroll Coral – Corallo giallo – Turbinaria reniformis – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-28-16h02m14s768
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Yellow scroll Coral

Yellow scroll Coral, Turbinaria reniformis, is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being “vulnerable” due to warming of the sea due to the increase in temperature across the planet ...
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Small Giant Clam dead – Tridacna maxima morta – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-28-14h58m31s391
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Small Giant Clam dead

Tridacna maxima is a giant bivalve species of the Tridacnidae family. Popular among the aquarists, it is often found in a marine aquarium. In Polynesia This species is called “Pahua” and enters the local cuisine. Adults develop a large shell that adheres to the substrate with the fine woven linen, a tuft of long, tenacious filaments protruding from a hole near the hinge ...
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Sargo in lair – Sarago maggiore in tana – Diplodus sargus sargus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-19-11h21m09s967
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Sargo in lair

Sargo, Diplodus sargus, or white Seabream is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. This fish is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. It is a target species for commercial fisheries and is grown in aquaculture. Diplodus sargus has a deep ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Pesce Chirurgo coda nera – Blackstreak surgeonfish – Acanthurus nigricauda – www.intotheblue.it-2023-11-23-16h43m05s249
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Blackstreak surgeonfish

Blackstreak surgeonfish, Acanthurus nigricauda, or epaulette surgeonfish, eye-line surgeonfish, shoulderbar surgeonfish, white-tail surgeonfish, is a tropical fish in the family Acanthuridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region. Acanthurus nigricauda occurs in the tropical and subtropical Indian Ocean ...
Stefano
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Flowerpot coral – Corallo margherita – Corallo a vaso di fiori – Goniopora lobata – www.itotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-05-10h59m52s380
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Flowerpot coral

Flowerpot coral, Goniopora lobata, is a genus of colonial stony coral found in lagoons and turbid water conditions. Goniopora have numerous daisy-like polyps that extend outward from the base, each tipped with 24 stinging tentacles which surrounds a mouth. Species of Goniopora can be found in the Persian Sea areas, the Indian Ocean, ...
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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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Indian Damsel – Damigella indiana – Pomacentrus indicus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-20-15h48m50s317
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Indian Damsel

Indian Damsel fish lives in the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific from the surface to a depth of 15 meters. These fish live in groups that can even be numerous; they lead a mainly diurnal life and are quite easy to approach by snorkeling ...
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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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T_Moray eel Murena helena Murena mediterranea-2024-10-27-14h13m59s062
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Muraena helena

Mediterranean moray eel (Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758) is a marine fish belonging to the Muraenidae family. In this video we see it on a rather bare corralligious seabed at a depth of about 40-42 meters. Moray eel Muraena helena Murena mediterranea www.intotheblue.it ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Symbiosis between Remora and sea Turtle – Simbiosi tra Remora e Tartaruga marina – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-29-18h39m24s947
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Live Sharksucker - Echeneis naucrates

Live Sharksucker or Slender Sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates, is a species of marine fish in the family Echeneidae. The species is considered as circumtropical, as it occurs in all tropical and warm temperate waters around the world, except for the eastern Pacific. The species can be found close to the coast, as well as offshore at a maximum depth of 50 m ...
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Adanson’s slit shell – conchiglia di Adanson – Entemnotrochus adansonianus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-28-14h16m41s797
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Adanson's slit shell

While snorkeling along a stretch of coral reef on Redang Island in Malaysia we found this Adanson's slit shell in a few meters of seabed. The encounter, quite unusual given that the mollusc lives at great depths, is due to the fact that it was probably brought there by some deep-sea fisherman while cleaning the fishing nets ...
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Marine plastics pollution – Inquinqmento marino da plastiche – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-15-10h05m15s993
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No more plastics in the sea!!!

Marine plastics pollution is a type ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. ...
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T_Brown meagre – Sciaena umbra – Corvina – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-12-21h24m40s760
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Brown Meagre

Brown Meagre (Sciaena umbra) is one of the most beautiful fish in the Mediterranean Sea and in this dive we met two of them on a rocky bottom of about 38 - 42 meters deep. As you can see we managed to get very close without scaring them and they then showed us their beautiful colors and reflections, ...
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Fusiliers fish – Pesci fucilieri – Caesio – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-04-10h57m38s555
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Fusiliers fish

Caesio is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, fusiliers belonging to the family Caesionidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, although one species has invaded the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal by lessepsian migration. Caesio was created in 1801 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain ...
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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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Bluespotted cornetfish – Pesce flauto – Fistularia commersonii – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-13-18h23m30s301
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Bluespotted cornetfish Fistularia commersonii

Bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii), also known as smooth cornetfish or smooth flutemouth, is a marine fish which belongs to the family Fistulariidae. This very long and slender reef-dweller belongs to the same order as the pipefishes and seahorses, called Syngnathiformes. It is widespread in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific ...
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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. ...
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Mediterranean Mussel – Mitilo mediterraneo – Mytilus galloprovincialis – www.intotheblue.it-2024-09-03-16h05m36s373
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Mediterranean Mussel

Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) is a species of bivalve, a marine mollusc in the family Mytilidae. It is an invasive species in many parts of the world, and also an object of aquaculture. Mytilus galloprovincialis is one of the three principal, closely related species in the Mytilus edulis complex of blue mussels. ...
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Scogliera sommersa con Aragoste – Mediterranean reef with spiny Lobsters – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-15-16h29m43s769
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Mediterranean reef with spiny Lobsters

We met the Lobsters in a submerged reef over 75 meters deep, the muddy bottom moved by the current made the water not very transparent; as you can see, however, the cliff is vital and exuberant. Palinurus elephas  is a spiny lobster, which is commonly present in the Mediterranean Sea. Is a common species of spiny lobster, ...
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Sabre squirrelfish – Pesce Scoiattolo spinoso – Sargocentron spiniferum – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-22-15h10m49s434
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Sabre squirrelfish

Sabre squirrelfish, Sargocentron spiniferum, common name giant squirrelfish and spiny squirrelfish, is a large Indo-Pacific species of squirrelfish belonging to the family Holocentridae. It is a species linked to the coral reef environment where it occupies a vast range of habitats: from atoll lagoons to reefs exposed to the open sea to coastal ...
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Ostrea cochlear and Astrospartus mediterraneus – Ostrica Neopycnodonte cochlear e Astrospartus mediterraneus – Neopycnodonte cochlear – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-20-19h12m46s984
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Ostrea Neopycnodonte cochlear

Ostrea Neopycnodonte cochlear is a species of marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Gryphaeidae. This species have been recorded as fossils from the Miocene to the Quaternary (from 15.97 to 0.012 Ma). Shells of Neopycnodonte cochlear can reach a size of about 27–120 millimetres (1.1–4.7 in). Shells are usually brownish or purplish, ...
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Striped large-eye bream – Pesce Imperatore dorato – Gnathodentex aureolineatus – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-04-17h39m07s419
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Striped large-eye bream

Striped Large-eye Bream, Gnathodentex aureolineatus, is present in tropical and sub tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean's islands, It is not found in the Red Sea or Persian Gulf. The goldspot seabream likes the proximity of reefs which slopes are external or not. Gnathodentex is a genus of ...
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Mucillagine-2024-08-13-17h47m51s237
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Mucillage and Toxic algae Ostreopsis ovata

Also in this year we are witnessing the now common and usual phenomenon of the inflorescence of marine mucilage along the coasts of our sea. At the same time as the mucilage, however, an excessive proliferation of the microalgae Ostreopsis cf. Ovata. Qhese two phenomena should not be connected or at least should not occur at the same time so frequently ...
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Luce del sole intotheblue.it-2024-08-11-11h48m32s861
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Colours of the Mediterranean Sea

Deep sea has an intense blue color. The light that penetrates the water changes its light intensity and its spectral composition by effect of  selective absorption by water of the different wavelengths that make up the visible spectrum. The ultraviolet and infrared stop the first few centimeters of depth, then extinguished the red, orange, yellow, green and purple and blue that reaches greater depths ...
Andrea 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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Melon sea urchin – Riccio Melone – Echinus melo – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-21-11h50m55s944
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Melon sea urchin

Melon sea urchin, Echinus melo,  is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae. This species grows up to 17 cm (7 in) in diameter. It is spherical or slightly cone-shaped, and the colour of the test is mainly pinkish, yellowish, or greenish-yellow, and banded with white and pale brown, giving it a segmented appearance. ...
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Bluefin Trevally
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Bluefin Trevally

The bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus), also known as the bluefin jack, bluefin kingfish, bluefinned crevalle, blue ulua, omilu, and spotted trevally), is a species of large, widely distributed marine fish classified in the jack family Carangidae. The bluefin trevally is distributed throughout the tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, ...
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Leucothea multicornis – Ctenoforo con i veli – Leucothea multicornis of Mediterranean sea – www.intotheblue.it-2024-02-11-12h13m10s434
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Leucothea multicornis of Mediterranean sea

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, but what you are seeing could be a Ctenophore, Leucothea multicornis, known as the Veil Ctenophore, because it has all its characteristics. ...
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T_Pelagia noctiluca Medusa luminosa viola Mauve stinger-2024-07-23-07h28m25s394
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Pelagia noctiluca

The beauty of the underwater world is that the distribution of life and various species is distributed 360° along the entire water column, even if not exactly uniformly. Marine biologists divide marine life into three macro-categories based on where they live and how they move, or rather into three marine biological categories: Plankton, Nekton and Benthos ...
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