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  • # Date: 2012-08-08
  • # Max Depth: 20m Duration: 38mins
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  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Water: Salt
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Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) (Duskey grouper) The dusky grouper is a protogynous hermaphrodite, meaning that it matures as a female but later develops into a male as it grows larger and older . Sexual maturity is attained fairly late, when females are around five year...
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Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758 (Mediterranean moray) A nocturnal and territorial species , commonly lurking in holes, and writhing snakelike through crevices, under rocks or corals. Feeds on fish, crabs and squid . It seldom attacks unless provoked . A gonochoristic speci...
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Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean barracuda) Found in coastal and offshore waters . Feeds mostly on fish, less often on cephalopods and crustaceans .
Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean rainbow wrasse) Occurs in the littoral zone, near rocks and eelgrass beds. Usually found between 1-60 m, but old males stay in deeper water. Found in deeper waters during winter. Sometimes solitary, among rocks, often with numerous spe...
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Muraena retifera Goode and Bean, 1882 (Moray eel) Known only from moderate depths along outer continental shelf.
Echinaster sepositus (common starfish)
Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Comber) Found on the shelf and upper slope on rocks, Posidonia beds, sand and mud bottoms . Feed on fishes, cephalopods and crustaceans .
Erythropodium caribaeorum (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) (encrusting gorgonian)

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