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Who dares say marine life in the Baltic Sea is grey and colourless?

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Who dares say marine life in the Baltic Sea is grey and colourless? Photographs by Oceana/Carlos Minguell

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Page 1: Marine life in the Baltic Sea

Who dares say marine life in the Baltic Seais grey and colourless?

Page 2: Marine life in the Baltic Sea

A benthic isopod crustacean named the Saduria entomon, relative of the rough woodlouse (Porcellio scaber), is considered a glacial relic.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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Colonies of tiny bryozoans (Electra pilosa) attach themselves to the shell of a blue mussel (Mytilus edulis).

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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The viviparous eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) is the only fish living in the Baltic Sea to give live birth.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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The fin rays of a bull-rout (Myoxocephalus scorpius) magnified.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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The pond snail (Radix peregra) is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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A fish leech (Piscicola geometra) sucking on the eye of a fourhorn sculpin (Triglopsis quadricornis).

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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Oceana diver watching a fourhorn sculpin (Triglopsis quadricornis) on the seabed.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) eggs.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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A lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) taking care of its eggs.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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The European flounder (Platichthys flesus) is a bottom-dwelling species, adapted to living on the seabed.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell

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The butterfish (Pholis gunnellus) is a rare species in Estonian waters.

Photo: © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell