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Mauve stinger – Pelagia noctiluca – Medusa luminosa mediterranea – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-04-01-19h30m58s115
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Mauve Stinger Pelagia noctiluca

Pelagia noctiluca is ajellyfish in the family Pelagiidae. It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, but other common names are purple-striped jelly (causing potential confusion with chrysaora colorata), purple stinger, purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish and night-light jellyfish. Pelagia noctiluca can be described as a marine organism with the ability to glow in the dark (bioluminescence). It is found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas.
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Sarcophyton ehrenbergi and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-01-11h03m13s663
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Sarcophyton ehrenbergi and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum

Sarcophyton ehrenbergi and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum are a octocorals of the Alcyoniidae family. It is composed of tiny polyps projecting from a shared leathery tissue. Members of the family may have two kinds of polyps; the autozooids have long trunks and eight tiny branched tentacles and project from the shared leathery tissue while the siphonozooids remain below the surface and pump water for the colony.
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Acropora robusta coral – Corallo Madrepora robusta – Acropora robusta – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-11-30-14h50m15s046
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Acropora robusta coral

Is a branching stony coral with cylindrical branches ranging from a few centimetres to over two metres in length and height. It occurs in back reef and fore reef environments from 0 to 30 m depth. It occurs in irregular colonies consisting of thick branches towards the centre, but its outer branches are thinner. Its rasp-like radial corallites can be of a variety of diameters and shapes.
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Mediterranean jellyfish – Cassiopea mediterranea – Cotylorhiza tuberculata – www.intotheblue.it-2024-01-30-17h07m01s733
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Mediterranean jellyfish

Mediterranean jellyfish, Cotylorhiza tuberculata, is a species of jellyfish, of the phylum Cnidaria, also known as the Mediterranean jelly. It is commonly found in the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, and Adriatic Sea. It can reach 40 cm in diameter. It seems that this jellyfish's sting has very little or no effect on humans.
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Cnidario

Body with normally radial symmetry; It has the shape of a bag whose inner cavity is called a gastric cavity. The gastric cavity opens on the outside in a mouth. ...
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