Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum

Gélatineux : Salpes et Beroe (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

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Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Pleurobrachia
Propulsées par huit rangées de peignes, les groseilles de mer déploient deux longs tentacules pour pêcher des crustacés.

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

The research vessel "James COOK"