European seabass
Dicentrarchus labrax
Silvery, streamlined predator common along the coast and around harbours.
Photo: Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0
Sea Life
Who you'll meet in the sea
The question we hear most before every ride: what's actually down there? Here are twelve species you're likely to meet through the windows, from schooling mullet to a cuttlefish flashing colour right in front of the glass.
Gilt-head bream
Sparus aurata
Silvery bream with a golden band between the eyes, common over seagrass and sand.
Common octopus
Octopus vulgaris
Eight-armed cephalopod that changes colour and texture; hides in holes and dens.
Common cuttlefish
Sepia officinalis
Cephalopod with an internal cuttlebone; flashes colours and hides in the sand.
European conger
Conger conger
Large scaleless eel that lives in reef holes; a nocturnal hunter.
Photo: Alejandro Vega Zepeda · CC BY 4.0
Grey mullet
Mugil cephalus
Silvery, blunt-headed fish, often shoaling in harbours and near river mouths.
Salema
Sarpa salpa
Fish with golden lengthwise stripes that grazes algae in large shoals.
Photo: Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0
Damselfish
Chromis chromis
Dark fish in large shoals above the reef; juveniles are electric blue.
Garfish
Belone belone
Long-bodied fish with a thin, toothy beak; its bones are green.
Greater weever
Trachinus draco
Fish that buries in the sand; venomous spines on its back — do not touch!
Photo: Charlotte Kirchner · CC BY 4.0
Red coral
Corallium rubrum
Prized red coral with a hard skeleton and white polyps; grows in shade and caves.
Photo: Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0
Noble pen shell
Pinna nobilis
The Mediterranean's largest shellfish; its triangular shell stands upright, anchored in Posidonia seagrass meadows. A strictly protected species.
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