Fig. 5: Underwater photographs from the Bari Canyon. (A, B) Hardgrounds and boulders along the canyon's flank at st. A208 colonized by a cnidarian-sponge assemblage dominated by Madrepora oculata (7) and Pachastrella monilifera (2); note the occurrence of orange sponge (Poecillastra compressa: 22) and Cidaris cidaris (8) one of most common elements of the vagile bathyal benthos; bar = 25 cm; (C) Close-up of a cnidarian-sponge assemblage at st. A208 showing the coalescent growth of sponges and corals, and the subordinate presence of Serpula vermicularis (15); bar = 25 cm; (D) Intimately associated S. vermicularis (15) and M. oculata (7) established on a hardground crest at st. A210; bar =10 cm.

Published as part of Angeletti, L., Taviani, M., Canese, S., Foglini, F., Mastrototaro, F., Argnani, A., Trincardi, F., Bakran-Petricioli, T., Ceregato, A., Chimienti, G., Mačić, V. & Abstract, A. Poliseno, 2014, New deep-water cnidarian sites in the southern Adriatic Sea, pp. 263-273 in Mediterranean Marine Science 15 (2) on page 268, DOI: 10.12681/mms.558, http://zenodo.org/record/12551180