Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
			
	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.
  
			
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
  
			Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
			Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
			Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
 
			
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
 
 
 
			Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
 
			
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
 
 
 
			Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
			Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
 
			Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
 
			Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
 
			Prélèvements d'eau des mésocosmes pour analyses, lors de l'expérience menée en Corse en juin/juillet 2012 (© A. Ree, PML)
 
			Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
			
			Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
 
			Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)