Pesce Immagine Lampreda Marina

The white ones are inferior to black and slate gray-blue supermind. The larger species have marbled sides blackish slate, on a gray-white, the back is darker and larger spots and the ventral side is dirty white.
It 'a species that bears significant changes in salinity and temperature and, therefore, can be found in fresh or brackish waters, but also in the sea up to 600 meters deep. The play, once in life and in the spring early summer, takes place in freshwater. The female can have more than 200,000 eggs, small and spherical. The larvae spend 3 to 5 years in streams, hidden under stones or in crevices, then transform into the adult stage and migrate to the sea.
The larvae feed on plankton and those adults are parasites of other fish. Do not take the bait on the hooks and are rarely taken with nets. The maximum size of an adult reaching nearly a meter.
And 'present everywhere, but rare on the Italian coast.

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Pesce Immagine Branchiostoma Lanceolatum

Branchiostoma lanceolatum PALLAS 1778.
The Branchiostomiformes are the simplest animals with a notochord. Lack of skull and limbs and have a circulatory system without a heart (the movement of blood occurs due to a pulsating vessel).
The amphioxus, as in the past been the subject of fishing and being able to observe this day, while scuba diving, is reported, although not a fish, the site of the fish of the seas of Italy just to meet requirements for recognition since the appearance and the environment in which they live.
In another section of the site, amphioxus is the correct taxonomic classification between Cefalocordati / Leptocardia to it and see for further details

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