Post on 10-Nov-2014
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Who dares say marine life in the Baltic Seais grey and colourless?
A benthic isopod crustacean named the Saduria entomon, relative of the rough woodlouse (Porcellio scaber), is considered a glacial relic.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
Colonies of tiny bryozoans (Electra pilosa) attach themselves to the shell of a blue mussel (Mytilus edulis).
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
The viviparous eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) is the only fish living in the Baltic Sea to give live birth.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
The fin rays of a bull-rout (Myoxocephalus scorpius) magnified.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
The pond snail (Radix peregra) is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
A fish leech (Piscicola geometra) sucking on the eye of a fourhorn sculpin (Triglopsis quadricornis).
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
Oceana diver watching a fourhorn sculpin (Triglopsis quadricornis) on the seabed.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) eggs.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
A lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) taking care of its eggs.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
The European flounder (Platichthys flesus) is a bottom-dwelling species, adapted to living on the seabed.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell
The butterfish (Pholis gunnellus) is a rare species in Estonian waters.
Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell