There is a magic blue paper ... probably bought in an ordinary stationery store, maybe after some drunken night ... or during a lightly - slightly drugged day ... because I can't recall the experience. I don't know how much it cost me, but whatever the price was - it's worth every penny (which in this case means Lipa, small change in Croatian currency, we don't use pennies in stores) ... because this thin blue surface - CAN RESURRECT THE DEAD !
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This is the Butterfly blenny (Blennius ocellaris) present in all seas around Europe. Inhabits a variety of habitats on the sea floor, from 10 to 400 meters.
There were many surprises awaiting in the big white bucket ...
... filled with treasures from the deep.
This is the young Peter's Fish (Zeus faber)
This one is very small, but can grow heavy ... up to 5 kg, and is a stalking predator, good at camouflage ...
... is able to extend its jaws forward, forming a tube - like structure that can suck smaller fish in a tiny fragment of time ... I don't know how fast it exactly is ... but is surely very fast.
Zeus Faber lives in a zone near the seabed, from 5 to 360 meters.
This strange and beautiful fish ...
... is the Red bandfish (Cepola macrophthalma )
Here you can see it through my trippy vision ...
... but in the normal view - is even more amazing.
These fish are burrowers ... and they feed largely like garden eels, sticking their bodies out of their burrows to catch zooplankton. Unlike garden eels, they are not fixed in their burrows, but can move in the open. The burrows have funnel-shaped openings, due to the large quantities of sediments they displace to construct them ... the burrows reach depths of up to 1,5 meters. Cepola macrophthalma fishes excavate and maintain their burrows at dawn or dusk. They can be found on sandy or muddy seafloor, in the depths from 10 to 400 meters.
This trippy leaf - like fish ...
... is the Citharus linguatula ... a small species of the Citharidae family, the more known, delicious and therefore commercially available European flounder (Platichthys flesus) is also part of that family ... and the two fishes are pretty similarly shaped.
Citharus linguatula inhabits the sand or mud seabeds in the depths from 50 to 400 meters.
Among all these fishes I found also some Crustaceans.
This is a small shrimp from the Alpheidae family ...
... I couldn't find much information about it.
This interesting ... and well known creature ... is a Mantis shrimp species ... the Squilla mantis, exactly.
These shrimps dig burrows in muddy and sandy bottoms not far from the coasts in the Mediterranean and adjacent warm parts of the eastern Atlantic. They spend their days in burrows and come out at night to hunt ...or, in the winter ... to mate.
Squilla mantis is found around the entire coast of the Mediterranean, and in the Atlantic Ocean south from the Gulf of Cádiz to Angola, as well as around the Canary Islands, and Madeira. It's particularly abundant where there is a significant run-off from rivers, and where the substrate is suitable for burrowing. Being close and under the big influence of the river Po estuary, there is an abundance of these shrimps in the area.
This beautiful crab is called Liocarcinus depurator ... by the biologists, mostly ...
... and lives on the sandy seafloor, in the depths from 30 to 250 meters. And now ...
... in the last, closing chapter of this post ...
... I'll show you some mollusks ...
... or, more precisely - their shells.
Hope you enjoyed this half artsy - half educational sea exploration ...
... as always in these posts on HIVE, all the photographs, GIFs and edits ... are in all segments my work ... THE END.
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