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Fig. 2. The aspect of sea bottom without mucillagineous coverings.

Sm all and sporadic creamy layers, carried up by both a similar structure and behaviour to t hose
ov gen bubbles trapped in the mucilage, were observed in the Adriatic Sea (Herndl an d Pe-
obs ;erved floating on the surface layer. duzzi, 1988; Stachowitsch et al., 1990).
7 These aggregates showed, on a small scale, Microscopic examinations confirm ed this

Fig. 3. A sciophilous community on the rocky sea bottom.