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Blue spiny starfish Coscinasterias tenuispina Stella marina variabile_intotheblue.it-2025-04-12-20h38m23s818
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Stella marina variabile

Coscinasterias tenuispina, Variable starfish or Spiny starfish is an echinoderm very common in the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the most common starfish in the "Mare nostrum" and I would also say one of the most fascinating. Usually Echinoderms (sea urchins and starfish) have a pentaray symmetry...
Andrea Cirivasi
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European Lobster – Astice europeo – Homarus gammarus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-29-14h54m26s788
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European Lobster

European lobster, Homarus Gammarus, known as the Common Lobster, belongs crustaceans class; it has a body completely covered by a robust shell with two large claws, different from each other, one more stocky and massive and one more sharp and slender. In front of the mouth it has six antennas as organs of touch, the thorax is smooth with four pairs of legs and the abdomen ends with a fan-shaped tail. The color is an intense blue marbled with yellow and white.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Reproduction – Peltodoris atromaculata – Riproduzione – www.intotheblue.it -UOVA-EGGS-2025-03-23-19h12m14s485
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Peltodoris atromaculata Reproduction

When we explore our underwater reefs we are often amazed by the number of species that we find in a few square meters and as in this case even in a few square centimeters. We have said it many times that biodiversity makes a habitat and an ecosystem more stable, solid and long-lasting. Often we fail to realize the quantity of different species that live next to each other and obviously it is almost impossible to know and recognize them all.
Andrea Cirivasi
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Dussumier’s halfbeak – Pesce Mezzobecco – Hyporhamphus dussumieri – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-14-16h44m37s494
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Pesce Mezzobecco

The Dussumier's halfbeak (Hyporhamphus dussumieri), also known as the slender garfish, lives in reefs and shallow lagoons. It is an Indo-Pacific species which is found from the Seychelles east to the Tuamotu islands, north to Hong Kong and Okinawa and south to northern Australia. They form schools which are found near the surface of lagoons and seaward reefs.
Stefano
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Branched sponge Spugna alberello Spugna ramificata Axinella-2025-03-14-21h06m12s463
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Tree Sponge or Branched Sponge - Axinella polypoides

In this dive on a seabed of about 40-42 meters deep we encountered the Tree Sponge or Branched Sponge, Axinella polypoides, a sponge typical of the Mediterranean Sea that develops vertically often with various branches almost like a coral. Branched sponge Spugna alberello Spugna ramificata Axinella intotheblue.it ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Immersione tra le gorgonie-2025-03-08-21h19m37s582
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Diving among gorgonians II

Diving in this reef completely covered with branches of red Gorgonia up to two meters high is always fascinating. Despite the poor visibility our torches manage to bring out all the colors of the underwater world. They range from the scarlet red of the Paramuricea clavata, to the yellow of the countless sponges and the arazoanthus axinellae, the sea daisy, to the red of the Corallium rubrum and the red scorpionfish. The pale pink ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Striped Eel Catfish – Pesce Gatto dei Coralli – Plotosus lineatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-01-15h48m07s822
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Striped Eel Catfish

Striped Eel Catfish, is a species of eeltail catfishes belonging to the family Plotosidae. Like most other members of the genus Plotosus. they possesses highly venomous spines that they can use to sting when threatened. The venom can cause mild to severe symptoms in humans.
Stefano
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Marine goldfish – Anthias anthias – Castagnola rossa-2025-02-22-15h46m44s117
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Marine goldfish - Anthias anthias

This article and this video are dedicated to the Marine goldfisg (Chromis chromis), companion and guardian of our dives over 40 meters deep. This fish belonging to the Serranidae family (the same as the Mediterranean Brown Grouper) lives on coralligenous seabeds and begins to be present from 30 meters deep onwards. However, it can be found up to 200 meters and in our scuba dives it is practically omnipresent. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Young Yellowbelly rock cod – Dusky Grouper – Giovane Cernia bruna – Epinephelus marginatus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-10-16h43m38s055
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Young Dusky Grouper

Young Dusky Grouper, Epinephelus marginatus , the yellowbelly rock cod or yellowbelly grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the family Serranidae. This species is the best known grouper species of the Mediterranea Sea and North Africa coast.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Gilt-head bream in shallow seabed – Orata nel basso fondale – Sparus aurata – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-16-16h21m27s261
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Gilt-head bream in shallow seabed

Gilt-head bream, Sparus aurata, is a bony sea and brackish water fish belonging to the Sparidae family. The name derives from the characteristic gold stripe that the fish shows between its eyes. Gilt-head bream is present throughout the Mediterranean.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Biodiversity – Biodiversità – www.intotheblue.it-2025-01-11-15h39m18s489
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Biodiversity

We are on an isolated patch of rock and coralligenous about 7.5 miles from the coast; the seabed varies from 49 to 52 meters, the area to explore has a surface area of ​​about a couple of basketball courts (about 600 square meters X 2). All around a sea of ​​mud and a mixture of mud/sand separates us from the main submerged reef 400/500 meters away, always on the bathymetric of 50 meters. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Mediterranean Red Starfish Echinaster sepositus Stella marina rossa-2025-01-03-14h27m38s775
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Mediterranean Red Starfish

The red starfish in this video - Echinaster sepositus - was filmed on a seabed of about 5 meters deep while free-diving, in the waters of the beautiful "Secche di Vada". We often visit these areas near the lighthouse for various reasons: the exceptional transparency of the water, the shallow depth, the presence of Posidonia oceanica that despite the frequent anchoring of boats seems to thrive and the distance from the chaotic and crowded coast in summer ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Barrel jellyfish invasion Rhizostoma pulmo Invasione di Polmone di mare www.intotheblue.it-27-16h43m59s467
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Barrel jellyfish invasion

The summer of 2024 was the hottest since temperatures have been measured, and it's not just the thermometer and measurement statistics that tell us this. As you can see in the video, this year too there was the usual, now inevitable, proliferation of jellyfish due to the increasingly warm sea temperatures. Barrel jellyfish invasion Rhizostoma pulmo Invasione di Polmone di mare www.intotheblue.it. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Relitto – Melania – Wreck – www.intotheblue.it-2024-12-22-17h23m36s762
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Melania Wreck

Even in this now forgotten summer of 2024 we returned to freedive on the Melania wreck. We often freedive on this wreck since the depth is not prohibitive even for the less trained. The wreck lies on a seabed of maximum 11-12 meters to rise to 9, considering the top of the bow perhaps even 6 meters deep. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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White-tuft Protula – Protula dal ciuffo bianco – Protula tubolaria – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-22-17h01m51s858
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White-tuft Protula

The White-tuft Protula, Protula tubularia, is a marine worm belonging to the class of sedentary Polychaetes and the order of Serpulidae which lives in a white calcareous tube and is present throughout the Mediterranean Sea at depths that can vary from 10 meters to over 100 metres. It is a very common annelid.
Fanino Cirivasi
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White Gorgonian – Gorgonia bianca – Gorgonia verrucosa – Eunicella verrucosa – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-11-16h24m18s596
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White Gorgonian

White Gorgonian, Eunicella verrucosa, or broad sea fan, pink sea fan, warty gorgonian, is a species of colonia Gorgonian "soft coral" in the family Gorgoniidae. It is native to the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Black Seabream – Tanuta o Cantaro – Spondyliosoma cantharus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-23-14h56m27s056
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Tanuta Spondyliosoma cantharus

The Black Seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus) is a protogynous species of Sparidae fishes, recognisable by their oval, compressed body and jaws, which contain 4–6 rows of slender teeth that are larger at the front. They are silvery in colour with blue and pink tinges and broken longitudinal gold lines. They can reach a maximum size of 60 cm in length.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Sargo in lair – Sarago maggiore in tana – Diplodus sargus sargus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-19-11h21m09s967
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Sargo in lair

Sargo, Diplodus sargus, or white Seabream is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. This fish is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. It is a target species for commercial fisheries and is grown in aquaculture.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Mediterranean coral reef – Barriera corallina mediterranea – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-22-10h59m14s373
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Mediterranean coral reef

Savalia savaglia is commonly known as Gold coral. This organism is commonly called "false black coral". It owes its name to its ability to produce a dark-colored horny skeleton, usually blackish. The colonies are generally settled on pre-existing gorgonians skeletons and can grow with ramifications that far exceed one meter in length.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Comb jelly – Ctenoforo di vetro – Bolinopsis vitrea – www.intotheblue.it-2024-06-24-14h05m30s615
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Comb jelly

Bolinopsis vitrea, is a species of comb jelly in the family Bolinopsidae, It is found in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea,it was first described by the American biologist Louis Agassiz in 1860. In Florida waters, Bolinopsis vitrea is the most common ctenophore.
Fanino Cirivasi
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T_Brown meagre – Sciaena umbra – Corvina – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-12-21h24m40s760
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Brown Meagre

Brown Meagre (Sciaena umbra) is one of the most beautiful fish in the Mediterranean Sea and in this dive we met two of them on a rocky bottom of about 38 - 42 meters deep. As you can see we managed to get very close without scaring them and they then showed us their beautiful colors and reflections, captured by our torches and cameras.. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Cushion coral Cladocora caespitosa Madrepora a ccuscino-2024-10-05-22h12m21s934
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Cushion coral - Cladocora caespitosa

Cushion coral, Cladocora caespitosa is a typical madrepore of the Mediterranean Sea, it belongs to the Hexacorallia class and to the Cnidaria phylum., It usually has a brownish, beige or dirty white color, this one in the video is unusually very white, probably because it is "still young". It is a colony of polyps that live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae algae. The polyps form calcium carbonate deposits that form the cells in which they live and that make the madrepore grow in size ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Salp – Taliaceo salpa – www.intotheblue.it-2024-06-24-15h06m30s451
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Salp

During a decompression stop the surface sea current carried with it numerous transparent marine organisms. They were various Ctenophores that I managed to identify. What you are seeing in the video is a salp. A salp is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae. It moves by contracting, thereby pumping water through its gelatinous body, one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Ascidia mentula – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-20-14h48m31s665
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Ascidia mentula

Ascidia mentula is a species of solitary tunicate. It is found in the north east Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. It occurs round the coasts of Britain but is seldom seen on the east coast of England or Scotland. Ascidia mentula has a tough leathery envelope or tunic composed partly of cellulose. The translucent tunic encloses a fluid-filled body with irregular bulges and two unmistakable siphons.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Bluespotted cornetfish – Pesce flauto – Fistularia commersonii – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-13-18h23m30s301
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Bluespotted cornetfish Fistularia commersonii

The bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii), also known as smooth cornetfish or smooth flutemouth, is a marine fish which belongs to the family Fistulariidae. This very long and slender reef-dweller belongs to the same order as the pipefishes and seahorses, called Syngnathiformes. It is widespread in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific as far north as Japan and east to the coasts of the Americas, including the Red Sea. In 2000, its presence was reported in the Mediterranean Sea
Stefano
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Yellow Gorgonian – yellow sea whip – Gorgonia gialla – Eunicella cavolinii – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-21-16h38m21s019
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Yellow Gorgonian Eunicella cavolinii

Yellow Gorgonian, Eunicella cavolinii, commonly known as the yellow sea whip, is a species of colonial soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae. It is native to parts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Ionian Sea where it is a common species. Eunicella cavolinii is a much-branched soft coral growing to a height of about 50 cm. It is fan-shaped with the irregular, cylindrical branches largely growing in a single plane.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Mediterranean Mussel – Mitilo mediterraneo – Mytilus galloprovincialis – www.intotheblue.it-2024-09-03-16h05m36s373
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Mediterranean Mussel

The Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) is a species of bivalve, a marine mollusc in the family Mytilidae. It is an invasive species in many parts of the world, and also an object of aquaculture. Mytilus galloprovincialis is one of the three principal, closely related species in the Mytilus edulis complex.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Scogliera sommersa con Aragoste – Mediterranean reef with spiny Lobsters – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-15-16h29m43s769
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Mediterranean reef with spiny Lobsters

We met the Lobsters in a submerged reef over 75 meters deep, the muddy bottom moved by the current made the water not very transparent; as you can see, however, the cliff is vital and exuberant. Palinurus elephas is a spiny lobster, which is commonly present in the Mediterranean Sea . Is a common species of spiny lobster, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
Fanino Cirivasi
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T_Common octopus Octopus vulgaris Polpo comune intotheblue.it-2024-09-04-17h25m56s111
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Common octopus

Octopus is considered one of the most intelligent animals that we can encounter in our Mediterranean Sea. As you can see, it is a champion of camouflage, cunning and escape strategies. However, it also has its problems and if once camouflaged it is practically impossible to see even to the most expert eyes, a spoilsport fish like the Serranus scriba (Painted comber) ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Ostrea cochlear and Astrospartus mediterraneus – Ostrica Neopycnodonte cochlear e Astrospartus mediterraneus – Neopycnodonte cochlear – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-20-19h12m46s984
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Ostrea Neopycnodonte cochlear

Neopycnodonte cochlear is a species of marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Gryphaeidae.This species can be found in the North Atlantic Ocean (Azores) and in the Mediterranean Sea. The peculiarity we want to point out is that it is a small oyster that plays the same role as corals. That is, it forms aggregations as they grow and multiply, create agglomerations of more or less large dimensions comparable to corals.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Cassiopea mediterranea Cotylorhiza tuberculata-Rhizostoma pulmo-Polmone di mare-2024-08-15-17h57m01s469
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Mediterranean increasingly warm: record temperatures and jellyfish

We are now facing a real tropicalization of the Mediterranean Sea which is leading to a too rapid and rapid change of this ecosystem, so we are increasingly witnessing an invasion of alien species, explosions of mucilage and toxic algae, a decrease in native fish species, a reduction in fishing and catches and, as can be seen from these images, a proliferation of jellyfish ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Mucillagine-2024-08-13-17h47m51s237
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Mucillage and Toxic algae Ostreopsis ovata

Also in this year we are witnessing the now common and usual phenomenon of the inflorescence of marine mucilage along the coasts of our sea. At the same time as the mucilage, however, an excessive proliferation of the microalgae Ostreopsis cf. Ovata. Qhese two phenomena should not be connected or at least should not occur at the same time so frequently...
Admin
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Luce del sole intotheblue.it-2024-08-11-11h48m32s861
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Colours of the Mediterranean Sea

Deep sea has an intense blue color. The light that penetrates the water changes its light intensity and its spectral composition by effect of  selective absorption by water of the different wavelengths that make up the visible spectrum. The ultraviolet and infrared stop the first few centimeters of depth, then extinguished the red, orange, yellow, green and purple and blue that reaches greater depths. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Dorid nudibranch – Doride dipinto – Felimare picta – www.intotheblue.it-2024-02-08-11h48m18s079
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Dorid nudibranch Felimare picta

Felimare picta is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk i the family Chromodorididae. The color of the body is variable and goes from blue to purple, yellow or green, with irregular yellow spots. It can reach up to 20 centimeters in length.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Melon sea urchin – Riccio Melone – Echinus melo – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-21-11h50m55s944
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Melon sea Urchin

Melon sea Urchin, Echinus melo, is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae. This species grows up to 17 cm in diameter. It is spherical or slightly cone-shaped, and the colour of the test is mainly pinkish, yellowish, or greenish-yellow, and banded with white and pale brown, giving it a segmented appearance. The long primary spines are few in number and olive green with pale tips.
Fanino Cirivasi
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