Underwater fauna and flora of Kalymnos Island

• Sessile animals.
• Colonial.
• Encrusting or erected colonies.

Underwater habitats of Kalymnos Island.

Habitat is where species find food, shelter, protection and mates.

Marine habitats have great biodiversity. They can be a reef, an underwater cave, a canyon, a wreck, a Posidonia meadow, a sponge.

Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimps, krill and barnacles.

• Free or sessile animals.
• Segmented wormshaped body.
• Sessile worms with a crown of radioles.