Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium hexacanthum
chaîne de Ceratium hexacanthum qui restent les uns à la suites des autres au fur et à mesure des divisions.
Le mouvement des flagelles est bien visible.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
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.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
