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 pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)