pelagic environment
1Pelagic fish — A school of large pelagic predator fish (giant trevally) sizing up a school of small pelagic prey fish (anchovies) Pelagic fish live near the surface or in the water column of coastal, ocean and lake waters, but not on the bottom of the sea or… …
2Pelagic armorhead — Taxobox name = Pelagic armorhead image caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Perciformes familia = Pentacerotidae genus = Pseudopentaceros species = P. richardsoni binomial =… …
3Pelagic Ecology of the Low Salinity San Francisco Estuary — Pelagic organisms spend all or part of their lives in the open water, where habitat isdefined not by edges but by physiological tolerance to salinity and temperature. The LowSalinity Zone (LSZ) of the San Francisco Estuary constitutes a habitat… …
4marine ecosystem — Introduction complex of living organisms in the ocean environment. Marine waters cover two thirds of the surface of the Earth. In some places the ocean is deeper than Mount Everest is high; for example, the Mariana Trench and the… …
5Crevalle jack — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …
6Northern Elephant Seal — Taxobox name = Northern Elephant Seal status = LR/lc status system = iucn2.3 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Carnivora familia = Phocidae genus = Mirounga species = M. angustirostris binomial =… …
7bathypelagic zone — the pelagic environment at bathypelagic depths …
8mesopelagic zone — the pelagic environment at depths listed above …
9Marine habitats — Coral reefs provide marine habitats for tube sponges, which in turn become marine habitats for fishes Littoral zone …
10Marine biology — Only 29 percent of the world surface is land. The rest is ocean, home to the marine lifeforms. The oceans average four kilometers in depth and are fringed with coastlines that run for nearly 380,000 kilometres. Marine biology is the scientific… …
