Some animals that live in the aphotic zone include the gulper eel, giant squid, smaller squids, anglerfish, vampire squid, and numerous jellyfish. Some of the ugliest and most evil-looking fish in the world are found here, including the viper fish, fangtooth, dragonfish, lizardfish, and many others.
Most of the ocean is completely dark. This is called the aphotic zone. The aphotic zone begins at a depth of 0.9 km (3,000 ft) and continues to the bottom, which usually maxes out at a depth of 5.5 km (18,000 ft), except for ocean trenches, which can be as deep as 11 km (6.8 mi). In the aphotic zone, photosynthesis cannot occur, so the usual foundation of food webs, plants and cyanobacteria, are absent. Instead, animals have to subsist on carcasses that fall from above, other animals, and in some rare cases, bacteria that use chemical energy sources such as sulfides and methane. The aphotic zone is further broken into two levels, the bathypelagic zone, which extends from around 1 km (3300 ft) below the surface to 4 km (13000 ft) below. Below this is the abyssopelagic zone, also called the abyssal zone, where pressures are extremely high (400 atmospheres and up) and biodiversity drops sharply. Even below the abyssopelagic zone is the hadopelagic zone, which is used to refer to ocean trenches. Some animals that live in the aphotic zone include the gulper eel, giant squid, smaller squids, anglerfish, vampire squid, and numerous jellyfish. Some of the ugliest and most evil-looking fish in the world are found here, including the viper fish, fangtooth, dragonfish, lizardfish, and many others. These fish often have hinged jaws, black scales, piercing eyes, and extremely sharp teeth. You wouldn't want to run into them in a dark flooded alley. Some of them are named after their superficial similarity to reptiles. Many of the animals in the aphotic zone are bioluminescent, meaning they can produce their own light in one way or another. This can be used both for navigation and luring small animals into their jaws. The angler fish is probably the most famous of examples, as it has a lure protruding in front of its mouth from a special appendage on its head. Other fish look not so evil so much as blob-like. These bottom-feeders include the aptly-named blobfish, coffin fish (which walk along the sea floor using leg-like fins), and others. At the bottom one can also find sea cucumbers and giant isopods, foot-long relatives of woodlice. The deep sea also has numerous unusual and rare sharks, such as the Megamouth Shark, hailed as one of the most impressive marine animal discoveries of the last century.
The aphotic zone of the ocean is the zone of the ocean that has no light. There are no producers in this zone. Everything lives off of things that sink from the higher levels.
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Nathan Field
The Intertidal Zone, Coastal Zone, Open Ocean, Ocean Trench, Photic Zone, and Aphotic Zone. (i asked this question then found it in my textbook)
The bottom zone of ocean life, where there is no light.
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The Viperfish can be found in the bathyal zone, abyssal zone, or the hadal zone of the aphotic zone. The apotic zone ranges from approximately 1000 meters below the ocean's surface to the bottom of the ocean.
the darkest part of the ocean is the bottom of the ocean
* Aphotic Zone
Aphotic Zone
Aphotic = no light so it is the zone below the depth of where light can penetrate. Depends on several things. The clarity of the water. less stuff in the water the farther light can go. There are no plants in the aphotic zone. Generally, there is less oxygen (and sometimes none) in the aphotic zone, but some animals can be found there. It depends on how deep this zone is and how well mixed the water column is.
aphotic zone
There is no photosynthesis
the temp. of the aphotic zone biome is freezing and gets colder in depth.
Aphotic zone is the area of a lake or an ocean which gets little or no sunshine throughout the year.
Photic = where there's light Aphotic = where there isn't light, deeper waters.
Photic = where there's light Aphotic = where there isn't light, deeper waters.
aphotic zone
Chemoautotrophs do not increase productivity in photic zones because they reside deep down on sea floors (abyssal zone) where no light penetrates. They are, however, active in the aphotic zone where no light from the sun is visible. There, these bacteria and protozoans take both organic and inorganic compounds provided by deep sea vents and become the "algae of the photic zone". Chemoautotrophs are the primary producers in the lower aphotic zone just like algae and phytoplankton is in the photic. The vital nutrients they provide depend on the type of chemoautotroph it is.
The Intertidal Zone, Coastal Zone, Open Ocean, Ocean Trench, Photic Zone, and Aphotic Zone. (i asked this question then found it in my textbook)