Seafloor view of the meadow (second)

View of the meadow.

Year: 2013

From album: Seagrass meadows in Greece

Photographer: Dimitris Poursanidis

Tags: Agia Pelagia Crete Dimitris Poursanidis Europe Greece Heraklion Irakleion

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A ball of fibres of the dead leafs of Posidonia oceanica

Abandoned fish gear (second)

Abandoned fishing gear

Abandoned gear on a seagrass meadow

Alicia mirabilis

Anchorage

Anchorage (second)

A school of juvenile red mullet (Mullus barbatus)

A school of juveniles of the Dusky spinefoot Siganus luridus

A school of juveniles of the Dusky spinefoot Siganus luridus (second)

A sea cucumber crawl on a meadow

A seagrass meadow made by the little Neptune grass Cymodocea nodosa

A seagrass seascape view

A seagrass seascape view (fifth)

A seagrass seascape view (fourth)

A seagrass seascape view (second)

A seagrass seascape view (sixth)

A seagrass seascape view (third)

A small gastropod snail crawl on a leaf grazing epibionts

A Symphodus roissali closeup

Black is the new blue

Damselfish school dominate the deep seagrass meadow

Dead leafs of Posidonia oceanica

Dead leafs of Posidonia oceanica (second)

Dense meadow of the little Neptune grass

Diplodus vulgaris

Dry leafs of the seagrass meadow Posidonia oceanica

Dusky spinefoot Siganus luridus

East Atlantic peacock wrasse (Symphodus tinca)

Extended meadow

Extended meadows (second)

Green river

Hey, are you watching to me

Meadow view with a school of damselfish

Pagellus erythrinus

Patchy formations of a meadow

Pinna nobilis

Posidonia oceanica

Posidonia oceanica reefs with exposed rhizomes and matte

Posidonia oceanica reefs with exposed rhizomes and matte (second)

Posidonia oceanica rhizome

Researcher during field work in a meadow

Researcher during field work in a meadow (second)

Researcher during field work in a meadow (third)

Researcher taking notes (second)

Researcher taking notes underwater

Sabella spallanzanii

Salema porgy (Sarpa salpa)

SCUBA divers enjoy a visit at a healthy meadow

Seafloor seagrass view

Seascapes at Agia Pelagia cove

Seascape view of a meadow (seventh)

Serranus cabrilla

Small noble shell hidden in the meadow

Symphodus melanocercus

Symphodus roissali

The dome of the aquatic world

The end of a small seagrass patch

The five-spotted wrasse (Symphodus roissali)

The Green and the Blue

The Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis) in alert mode

The rhizomes of the meadow are expanding

The rhizomes of the seagrass

The seed of Posidonia oceanica

The seeds of Posidonia oceanica (second)

The tips of the rhizomes of Posidonia oceanic

The understory of the green leafs of the meadow

View of a meadow

View of the meadow (Second)

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