The Portuguese shoreline typically consists of rocky bottoms. Here, organisms find protection amongst seaweed, rocks and within crevices. Some of the animals are masters of camouflage and remain hidden even from the most attentive predators.
Anemones, corals and jellyfish
Beadlet anemone (Actinia equina - Actiniidae)
Sea-anemone (Anemonia sulcata - Actiniidae)
Bony fish
Common two-banded seabream (Diplodus vulgaris - Sparidae)
Corkwing wrasse, sea partridge, corkwing (Symphodus melops - Labridae)
European seabass, seabass, common seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax - Moronidae)
Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis - Labridae)
Salema, bamboo fish, goldline (Sarpa salpa - Sparidae)
Thick-lipped grey mullet, thicklip grey mullet (Chelon labrosus - Mugilidae)
White seabream (Diplodus sargus sargus - Sparidae)
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