Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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 reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)