bathyal

It can be found from near the seashore to the bathyal zone.

It is compared with other bathyal species of Ophiura in Table 3.

This species occurs in the bathyal zone off New Zealand.

It is found at bathyal depths in waters around New Zealand.

It is a circumglobal species found at bathyal depths.

The Bathyal zone starts at about 220 meters.

These organs release light, making the organism distinguishable among the darkness of the bathyal zone.

These snails occur from shallow waters to bathyal depths.

Sponges, brachiopods, sea stars, and echinoids are also common in the bathyal zone.

Animals in the bathyal zone are not threatened by predators that can see them, so they do not have powerful muscles.

This bathyal species occurs in Arctic waters.

This species occurs in the South Atlantic Ocean at bathyal depths.

Bathymetric records suggest that it is a bathyal species with its lower limit in the upper abyssal zone.

For example, the bathyal M. amblyops, the smallest mysid in the genus, has reduced eyes.

The zone above is the bathyal zone.

O. imprudens is included because it has not been figured satisfactorily and as bathyal species its distribution may extend to 1000 m.

Although larger by volume than the euphotic zone, the bathyal zone is less densely populated.

X. janetae is a bathyal abyssal species, meaning it is found in the deepest part of the open ocean.

"Classification and systematic relationships of the Abyssochrysidae, a relict family of bathyal snails".

In the north in the bathyal zone north of the Shetlands, this depth increases to between 100 and 200 metres.

This bathyal species occurs in European waters on the Gorringe Bank off Portugal.

Studies of marine litter in the Mediterranean include surveys of seabed debris on the continental shelf, slope, and bathyal plain.

Atlantic bathyal Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea): additional data, and description of a new species.

The bathyal swimming crab, Bathynectes longispina, is a species of crab in the Portunidae family.

This species is distributed in the bathyal northwest Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of Maine.