Fabio Russo Maya desnuda, a very rare immage of a tube worm out of the tube, Sabella spallanzanii, it was totally covered by parassitic copepod of the species Sabelliphilus elongatus, this parassite make the tube worm soffers and exit out of his home...
During night dive, Nikon Coopix 8400, F 6,8 1/125, iso 50 24 mm equivalent, ikelite ds50 strobe, two selfmade led lights
Fabio Russo Here a cro of another pic
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=301786346563493&set=a.297628606979267.70181.100001963915296&type=3
Isabella Maffei you are a lucky diver , it's a so rare event! congrats Fabio great pic
João Pedro Silva This will be great to show some of my friends who didn't believe me when I said Sabella spallanzanii is a polychaete, much like earth worms.
Marco Paravella Great and intresting shot
Fabio Russo Thanks guys, Isabella, i'm not so luky if in more than 30 years of dive i saw it one more time, but i think that anything in the sea is a gift, João Pedro, use this foto for teach your friends that a fan worm is an anellid, like earthworm! and Marco, intresting is the highest compliment i can have...for me the underwater photography is a way to help understand marine life!
Fabio Russo Maya desnuda, a very rare immage of a tube worm out of the tube, Sabella spallanzanii, it was totally covered by parassitic copepod of the species Sabelliphilus elongatus, this parassite make the tube worm soffers and exit out of his home...
During night dive, Nikon Coopix 8400, F 6,8 1/125, iso 50 24 mm equivalent, ikelite ds50 strobe, two selfmade led lights
Fabio Russo Here a cro of another pic
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=301786346563493&set=a.297628606979267.70181.100001963915296&type=3
Isabella Maffei you are a lucky diver , it's a so rare event! congrats Fabio great pic
João Pedro Silva This will be great to show some of my friends who didn't believe me when I said Sabella spallanzanii is a polychaete, much like earth worms.
Marco Paravella Great and intresting shot
Fabio Russo Thanks guys, Isabella, i'm not so luky if in more than 30 years of dive i saw it one more time, but i think that anything in the sea is a gift, João Pedro, use this foto for teach your friends that a fan worm is an anellid, like earthworm! and Marco, intresting is the highest compliment i can have...for me the underwater photography is a way to help understand marine life!
Fabrizio FrixaSabella spallanzanii
Spirographs
A slide 17-years old.
I did not have other opportunities to take the "gills" as it comes from the tube limestone.
Cyclops Islands Marine Protected Area
Capomolini fraz. Acireale (CT)
Fabrizio FrixaSabella spallanzanii
Spirographs
A slide 17-years old.
I did not have other opportunities to take the "gills" as it comes from the tube limestone.
Cyclops Islands Marine Protected Area
Capomolini fraz. Acireale (CT)
Giorgio Cavallaro Uwp http://www.uwphotographers.net/2011/11/fabrizio-frixa-nasce-catania-nel-1965-e.html
Henrique Nascimento CatarinaSabella spallanzanii
Green water, Visibility 1 or 2 meters ..... :(
....but it is Fantastic go to the Underwater
Sesimbra - Portugal
20130525
Henrique Nascimento CatarinaSabella spallanzanii
Green water, Visibility 1 or 2 meters ..... :( but it is Fantastic go to the Underwater
Sesimbra - Portugal
20130525
Fabrizio FrixaSabella spallanzanii
Spirographs
A slide 17-years old.
I did not have other opportunities to take the "gills" as it comes from the tube limestone.
Cyclops Islands Marine Protected Area
Capomolini fraz. Acireale (CT)