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  • Nº19 # Date: 2016-05-18 - 10:51
  • # Max Depth: 13m Duration: 46mins
Diver's Notes

Very nice staff. Calm and diverse dive with lots of marine life in the reef.
There was a barracuda near the beginning of the dive and also saw a nudibranch near the end.

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  • Surface interval:0 mins
  • Temp: Surf 20°C Bottom 18°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 7.5 kg
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Species Identified

Stenorhynchus seticornis (J. F. W. Herbst, 1788) (yellowline arrow crab)
Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Salema) Found over rocky substrates and sandy area with algal growth. Gregarious, sometimes forming sizeable schools. Young mainly carnivorous on crustaceans, adults almost exclusively herbivorous , feed on seaweeds . Protandri...
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Synodus intermedius (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (Lizardfish) Found on the sandy bottom around boulders or in sandy corridors in patch reefs . Uncommon near the shore.
Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch, 1786) (sharpnose puffer) Inhabits reefs and marginal habitats such as seagrass beds . Diet consists of seagrass, sponges, crabs and other crustaceans, mollusks, polychaete worms, sea urchins, starfishes, hydroids and algae . Monogamous .
Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) (White-spotted puffer)
Balistes capriscus Gmelin, 1789 (gray triggerfish)
Sparisoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758) (parrotfish) In shallow water along rocky shores. Feed on algae and small invertebrates . Herbivore species with specialized pharyngeal bones and muscles . Breeding occurs from July to September, with juveniles recruiting in late summer in Portugal .
Diadema antillarum (Philippi, 1845) (long-spined sea urchin)
Sphyraena lucasana Gill, 1863 (Barracuda)
Marthasterias glacialis (spiny starfish)
Asterias amurensis Lütken, 1871 (Flatbottom seastar)
Echinaster sepositus (common starfish)
Decodon puellaris (Poey, 1860) (red hogfish) Mainly found over rocky bottoms of insular areas .
Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832) (Barracuda)
Phyllidia varicosa Lamarck 1801 (Varicose nudibranch)

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