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Invasion of the Sea walnut Mnemiopsis leidyi

Also this summer we are witnessing the invasion of the Mnemiopsis leidyi or Sea walnut. This year we are in early July and the sea water is slowly warming up as always in summer. Punctually after a short and intense sea storm we witness an invasion of jellyfish, plastic, tree trunks and branches ...

Andrea Cirivasi

July 9, 2024

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Blue crab - Callinectes sapidus

Even we at intotheblue.it could not miss the infamous and by now famous this summer, Blue Crab - Callinectes sapidus - also known as Blue King Crab. We filmed it after several reports, on the stretch of coast between Vada and Rosignano Solvay, luring it with a bait to film it with the camera. ...

Fanino Cirivasi

August 4, 2023

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European barracuda and Yellow barracuda

European barracuda, Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758), also known as the European barracuda, is the endemic species of the Mediterranean Sea. Sphyraena viridensis, commonly known as Yellowmouth Barracuda or Mediterranean Barracuda, is a species of saltwater fish belonging to the Sphyraenidae family ...

netartstudio

July 25, 2023

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Salpa maxima

Salpa maxima also arrived in the upper Tyrrhenian Sea or lower Ligurian Sea, that is, in the waters of Livorno and the province where we often dive. It is a Tunicate; at first sight it looks like a cross between a fish and a jellyfish but it is neither, it is actually a transparent invertebrate belonging to the order of the Salpidae subphylum Tunicata ....

Andrea Cirivasi

June 2, 2022

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Ostreopsis ovata and Caulerpa racemosa

While I was trying to film some sea anemones Anemonia sulcata and Actinia equina, I found a toxic alga: Ostreopsis ovata, and an alien alga: Caulerpa in clusters, Caulerpa racemosa. These are two algae now increasingly common in the Mar Mediterraneo,...

Andrea Cirivasi

October 27, 2021

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Mediterranean Barracuda - Sphyraena viridensis

Mediterranean Barracuda or Yellow-mouth Barracuda (Sphyraena viridensis) is an endemic species of Mediterranean Sea, although many consider it an alien species, it is actually one of the many species that are victims of global warming and tropicalization of the Mediterranean. Bar ...

Andrea Cirivasi

July 27, 2021

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Invasion of Mnemiopsis leidyi

This video made on August 20, 2019 documents the invasion of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the waters of ...

Andrea Cirivasi

August 20, 2019

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