History of the Republic of Venice were little compensation. This was the last war of the Republic with Turkey. The decline of Venice in the 18th century was also due not only to Genoa, Venice's old rival, but also to Livorno, a new port on the Tyrrhenian Sea created by the grand dukes of Tuscany and chosen as staging-post for British trade in the Mediterranean. Still more injurious were the Papal town of Ancona and Habsburg Trieste, a free port since 1719, in the Adriatic Sea, which no longer constituted a "Venetian Gulf". An eminent Venetian politician of the time declared, "Apart from the residue which
Sea urchins of the Gulf of California major habitat locations. The scientific names, biogeographic distributions, world distributions, and depth ranges found in the list above are from the Sea of Cortez Database. A study from 2005 adds the following species : "Lytechinus anamesus", "Toxopneustes roseus", "Cassidulus pacificus", "Mellita kanakoffi", "Encope wetmorei", "Brissus latecarinatus", "Metalia spatagus", "Brisaster townsendi", "Moira clotho". Sea urchins of the Gulf of California The sea urchins of the Gulf of California live between the coasts of the Baja California Peninsula to the west and mainland state of Sonora, Mexico to the east. The northern boundary is the lateral band of land with the remains