Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
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.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
