Ocean life

Honolulu-Waikiki. Men in boats riding waves on the Pacific Ocean

This species of sea star is benthic and can be found between 3 to 55 m deep, in seaside areas, especially on rocky bottoms. Cryptic species, is rarely found in reefs and lagoons. It occasionally feeds on mollusks. The members of the Asteroidea class prese…

The species originates in the Yellow Sea, the Eastern Sea of China and Bohai Bay. Today it is an invasive species, also present in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean to southeast South America. From 1959 to 1970 it expanded into the Black Se…

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Lettering: Elegant Present book. The mysteries of the ocean, from the French of Arthur Mangin...with one hundred and thirty illustrations by W. Freeman and J. Noel...

Lettering: Coral bank in the Red Sea. (After Haeckel's "Arabische Korallen" and other authorities.)

Lettering: Four-eyed fish Butterfly fish. Chaetodon capistratus. Chaetodon ocellatus. H. Murayama 1919

Three Dutch whalers navigate the Arctic Ocean amid walruses and ice floes. The crewmen are hunting whales, while simultaneously trying to fight off polar bears. The demand for train oil (oil from the blubber of whales, walruses and seals) had increased gr…

Tubipora musica is not part of the group of “real” corals, which is a calcareous skeleton. It consists of vertical tubes (sclerites), connected by side plates, bright red. The skeleton of the coral is covered by numerous polyps, gray in color, with eight …

Stylophora digitata is a limestone coral, from the coral-cauliflower group, with thick branches. It lives in very varied habitats, from the most exposed, the ridges of the reefs from shallow waters, up to 50 meters deep, with high turbidity, as well as in…

Platygyra lamellina is a limestone, colonial, rounded or flattened coral. The corals are long, narrow and meandering, thick-walled. It may have a brown color, with greenish and gray. It is widespread in the Indo-Pacific region, from Madagascar, from the e…

The Mushroom Coral, Litophyllon repanda, lives at depths of up to 30 meters from the Indian Ocean, in the southwest and north, the Red Sea, east Africa, East China Sea, central Pacific. It is brown with pale tentacles, the septa are almost equal and the s…

Representatives of the genus Pocillopora are spread in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They are called coral-cauliflower and can be identified by the presence of excrescences on the surface. The colonies may be dome-shaped or branched, and the color varies…

Live at depths of up to 30 meters, near the continental islands and lagoons. They rarely follow large colonies, commonly found in the vicinity of other species of solitary corals. Indo-Pacific species, lives from the Red Sea to New Caledonia. The Red List…

Tubipora musica nu face parte din grupul coralilor ”adevărați”, acesta fiind un schelet calcaros. Este alcătuit din tuburi verticale (sclerite), conectate prin plăci laterale, de culoare roșu aprins. Scheletul coralului este acoperit de numeroși polipi, d…

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Melithaea ochracea is a species of fan-coral with a soft body. Colonial species, arborescent. It is known from small water reefs from the South China Sea between Taiwan and Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. It is the most widespread species of gorgonie. …

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Lettering: Bears number 10 in top left corner. Lettering includes name of artist and local name for the fish ('Tipa' and 'Kar Kitiya') in Arabic script. In the collection of Lady Impey, Calcutta ; Painted by [Bhawani Das], 1783.; Fish '…

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Σε μπλε φόντο εικονίζεται κόκκινο ψάρι, αφαιρετικά αποδοσμένο, στο σώμα του οποίου εικονίζονται περιγράμματα μικρών ψαριών.

Under 1800-talets senare hälft hade havet och kustlandskapet etablerats som ett återkommande motiv i den franska konsten. Realister, friluftsmålare och impressionister sökte sig till landets kuster för att skildra vågorna, himlen och ljuset. Maurice Denis…

På 1880-talet begav sig Monet vid upprepade tillfällen till Normandiekusten. 1882 besökte han den lilla hamnstaden Pourville, där den här målningen tillkom. Monet använder här en ovanlig komposition – i ett brant perspektiv öppnar sig vyn över havet. Från…