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Meaning of "mesopelagic"
mesopelagic (adjective) - describing the layer of the ocean known as the mesopelagic zone, which receives very little sunlight and is around 200-1000 meters deep
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- Describing a pelagic zone of the oceans between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones
- A mesopelagic fish
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Below the mesopelagic zone it is pitch dark.
This is the twilight or mesopelagic zone.
The mesopelagic is the uppermost region.
It is usually found in the mesopelagic zone.
The mesopelagic zone has some unique acoustic features.
Niger occurs in the mesopelagic zone of all oceans.
Electrona antarctica was not a major component of the recent mesopelagic ichthyofauna.
Its diet include mesopelagic fish and pelagic crustaceans.
It remains an open question whether the mesopelagic stocks.
The mesopelagic zone.
Everything under the mesopelagic is night.
Mesopelagic fish are adapted for an active life under low light conditions.
This species lives in the mesopelagic layer of the ocean.
Squid and cuttlefish are two mollusks common in the mesopelagic zone.
In this way they are closer to mesopelagic fishes than bathypelagic fishes.
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The behaviour of bathypelagic fish can be contrasted with the behaviour of mesopelagic fish.
See also mesopelagic.
Lancetfish are ambush predators which spend all their time in the mesopelagic zone.
Their prey are likely mesopelagic zooplankton that feed on sinking organic matter.
The six known species inhabit the mesopelagic zone.
It is a mesopelagic species.
Its large eyes and uniformly dark coloration are characteristic traits of a mesopelagic fish.
The approach was tested only for mesopelagic fish at this stage.
The dimness of mesopelagic waters also helps hide them from larger predators.
Persparsia kopua is a mesopelagic species.
Benthopelagic and mesopelagic in slope and near continental and island waters Ref.
The animals are different from those in the mesopelagic zone as there is no light.
The mesopelagic fish fauna of the Newfoundland Basin is relatively depauperate.
Clione limacina inhabits both the epipelagic and mesopelagic regions of the water column.
The mesopelagic sabertooth is an ambush predator with telescopic, upward-pointing eyes.
Species composition in the diet varied considerably locally and ranged from mesopelagic to demersal species.
In the deeper regions of the Mesopelagic zone are various types of dragonfish.
The Wolf eel can also be found in shallow waters above the Mesopelagic zone.
Myctophum punctatum is a species of mesopelagic fish in the family Myctophidae.
The mesopelagic zone is the disphotic zone, meaning light there is minimal but still measurable.
Young whalefish make nightly vertical migrations into the lower mesopelagic zone to feed on copepods.
Glacialis occurs in mesopelagic waters of the Southern Ocean.
Bigeye tuna cruise the epipelagic zone at night and the mesopelagic zone during the day.
It lies between the mesopelagic above, and the abyssopelagic below.
The Eustomias schmidti are mostly mesopelagic.
They are among the largest mesopelagic fishes up to 2 metres.
Mesopelagic fish usually lack defensive spines, and use colour to camouflage themselves from other fish.
Bathypelagic fish Below the mesopelagic zone it is pitch dark.
Mesopelagic fish Below the epipelagic zone, conditions change rapidly.
New EU project on sustainable mesopelagic fisheries.
Most mesopelagic organisms, including mesopelagic fish, squid and siphonophores, make daily vertical migrations.
Longimana occurs in epipelagic and mesopelagic waters of the Southern Ocean.
Table 11, Rationale and characterisation of elements for mesopelagic fish.
Although some light penetrates the mesopelagic zone, it is insufficient for photosynthesis.
He has most recently being studying the ecology of animals in the Mesopelagic Boundary Region.
