Quizz marine zooplankton

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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Cténophores - Orgie de couleurs
Vagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

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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.

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

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

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

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The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.