FIRST PLACE – Claudio Zori

A splendid night shot of Haliotis tuberculata in action, in which you can see the small ‘eyes’ – photosensitive receptors – and the expanding mantle. The mollusk is commonly called abalone or sea ear or Venus ear.

SECOND PLACE – Maurizio Ballo

A ghost shrimp masterfully captured as it strolls among the tentacles of an anemone. Periclimenes amethysteus is a transparent shrimp named after a heart-shaped spot on its back. It lives in association with sea anemones, where it finds protection.

THIRD PLACE – Cesar Vicente García

Pinna never stops to offer refuge and support to other species, and not only to filter feeders and suspension feeders. In this very “intimate” and successful shot, its wreck found in Formentera offers shelter to a wrasse (Serranus cabrilla).

Menzioni speciali

Elio Nicosia

Close-up shot from below that gives great personality to the two parrotfish.

Maurizio Ballo

A splendid portrait of a female Pinnotheres pisum, the crab that lives in symbiosis with the Pinna and other bivalves.

Laura Giavardi

A very successful composition in an artificial habitat.

Marco Fantin

The new life of Pinna. Here, a wreck is covered with the nudibranch Spurilla neapolitana (brown) and its eggs (white).

Mauro Salis

Memories of a Pinna nobilis in a Posidonia oceanica meadow.

Sara Bagarozza

A colorful nudibranch of the genus Felimida strolls among the tubercles of a Pinna rudis valve.

Gloria Vono

A Pinna rudis with a broken valve in which you can see the silhouette of Pontonia pinnophylax, the shrimp that lives in symbiosis with the Pinnidae.

Lorenzo Vantaggiato

Fouling of barnacles and sea urchins attached to the submerged surface of a buoy.