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For more information on butterflies, including photos for identifying different species, see www.eurobutterflies.com (and the Lepidapp app www.lepidapp.co.uk), www.lepidoptera.pl and www.leps.it.

Fish and other marine life

The waters of the Croatian Adriatic are abundant in fish and other marine life, including several species found only in the eastern Adriatic. Nevertheless, overfishing has resulted in several of these species becoming quite rare or even threatened – including some, such as John Dory and monkfish, that appear on menus at most seafood restaurants. (The Marine Conservation Society publishes a handy booklet on which fish you might want to consider avoiding eating, which can be downloaded for free at www.fishonline.org.)

Bottlenose dolphins are a not uncommon sight on the Croatian Adriatic, which is also home to the critically endangered Green turtle, as well as the Loggerhead turtle, and there have been sightings of the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal in Croatian waters.