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  • Nº9 # Date: 2013-11-22 - 11:07
  • # Max Depth: 17.7m Duration: 47mins
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  • Temp: Surf 4°C Bottom 15°C
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  • Dry suit: Cressi Sub - Drylastic
  • Mask: Cressi - Nano
  • Weights: 10 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 15L Steel     180 → 40 bar
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  • Average depth: 11.8m
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Species Identified

Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier 1829 (Long-snouted seahorse) While information on the biology of this particular species is lacking, it is likely to be similar to that of other seahorses (Hippocampus species). Seahorses are ambush predators that wait in the water until a prey...
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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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Dentex dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common dentex) Inhabit hard bottoms down to 200 m depth. Usually found in shallow water less than 50 m deep . Adults solitary; young gregarious . Young fish caught with traps. Feed on fish, mollusks and cephalopods. Important food ...
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Labrus merula Linnaeus, 1758 (Cuckoo wrasse) Found around rocks and seaweeds. Sometime schooling, more solitary when older. Feed on sea urchins, ophiuroids, mollusks, crabs and worms. Mature when 2 years old (15-20 cm). Spawn during February to May in western Mediterranean .
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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Diplodus cervinus (Lowe, 1838) (Zebra seabream)
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.
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 .
Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European anchovy) Mainly a coastal marine species, forming large schools. Tolerates salinities of 5-41 ppt and in some areas, enters lagoons, estuaries and lakes, especially during spawning. Tends to move further north and into surface wa...
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