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  • Nº25 # Date: 2014-08-08 - 09:51
  • # Max Depth: 14.9m Duration: 51mins
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  • Temp: Surf 27°C Bottom 24°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Photo, boat
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Camera: Lumix - DMC-TZ7
  • Weights: 6 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 70 bar
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  • Average depth: 9.9m
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Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Striped seabream) Found on the shelf, over sandy and muddy bottoms as well as seagrass-beds and estuaries. Gregarious, sometimes forming sizeable schools. Feeds on worms, mollusks and small crustaceans. Protandric hermaphrodite . Flesh excellent ; sold fresh and dried.
Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ornate wrasse) Inhabits coastal waters near rocks and eel-grass beds. Usually solitary, sometimes in small groups. Feeds on small mollusks and crustaceans . Protogynous hermaphrodite, with distinct sexual dichromatism . Eggs are pelagic .
Diplodus puntazzo (Cetti, 1777) (Sharpsnout seabream) Benthopelagic marine species. Gregarious species living in coastal waters on rocky or sandy bottoms, up to 1 50 m . Younger individuals can also be found in brackish waters and may live in littoral pools , the adults often...
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Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (Common two-banded seabream) A euryhaline species inhabiting rocky and sometimes sandy bottoms to depths of 160 m, but more commonly in less than 50 m. The young are sometimes found in seagrass beds. Adults feed on crustaceans, worms and mollusks . Important food fish.
Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758) (painted wrasse) Littoral, found near rocks mainly in eel-grass beds, sometimes in salty lagoons. Often gregarious. Nest of seaweed built and kept by male with one or more females spawning. Feed on sea urchins, ophiuroids, bivalves, shrimps and crabs . Rate of growth is slow . Undergoes sex reversal .
Apogon imberbis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cardinal fish) Occasionally forms schools; sometimes solitary. Inhabits muddy or rocky bottoms and caves. Feeds on small invertebrates and fishes . Oral brooding by males .
Anemonia viridis (Forskål, 1775) (Snakelocks anemone)
Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 (common octopus) Like all cephalopods, the common octopus is an intelligent active predator . They have modified salivary glands that produce venom used to incapacitate prey. It is often easy to identify what a common octopus has been feed...
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Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758 (Greater weever fish) On sandy, muddy or gravelly bottoms, from a few meters to about 150 m. Rest on the bottom, often buried with eyes and tip of first dorsal fin exposed . At night they swim around freely, even pelagically . Feed on small ...
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Sabella spallanzanii (Viviani, 1805)
Holothuria forskali Chiaje, 1841
Echinaster sepositus (common starfish)
Chromis chromis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean chromis) Form small shoals in midwater above or near rocky reefs or above seagrass meadows (Posidonia. Feed on small planktonic or benthic animals . Reproduce in summer . Eggs characterised by adhesive filaments are nested on rocky or sandy bottoms . Males guard the eggs .
Diplodus sargus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) (White seabream) Inhabits coastal rocky reef areas and Posidonia oceanica beds. Like other sparids, it is very active and frequents the surf zone, primarily at dawn . Feeds on shellfish and other benthic invertebrates which it picks from the sediment .
Pinna nobilis Linnaeus 1758 (Fan mussel)

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