Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (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.
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.