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Animals in this zone have adapted to life in near darkness, cold water and high pressure.
Some animals that live in the mesopelagic zone are:
angel shark
brittle star
copepod
ceolocanth
clams
crabs
cuttlefish
eels
echinoderms (sea stars)
gastropods
gray whales
greenland shark
krill
lobsters
octopus
plankton
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Does the mesopelagic zone have the most sunlight?
How much sunlight is in the mesopelagic zone
Where in the ocean are you likely to find animals that make their own light?
the mesopelagic zone
What zone do electric eels live in?
-The Epipelagic zone (sunlight zone) -The Mesopelagic zone (twilight zone) -The Bathypelagic zone (midnight zone)
What kinds of animals live in the benthic zone?
fishes
Which zone does the piglet squid live in?
The piglet squid lives in the epipelagic zone (sunlight zone) until they are fully matured when they descend in to the mesopelagic zone (twilight zone).
What kind of plants live in the mesopelagic zone?
dominant fishes are of the families Myctophidae and gonostomatidae, for more see Biology of fishes by Bond.
Is the twilight zone the mesopelagic?
Yes, it is.
The main thermocline is located at the zone?
In the mesopelagic
To what dept does sunlight penetrate the ocean?
Somewhere in the Mesopelagic Zone (200m to 1000m). Although enough sunlight makes it here for some animals it is too dim for photosynthesis. There is no sunlight beneath this zone.
What are some pelagic zone plants?
also called twilight zone, it is the zone between 100 and 1000m depth. In this zone you don't have primary production (no light, no photosynthesis) but you have all the flux of matter that comes from the surface (fecal pellets, diatoms aggregates, marine snow...). This is the zone where you have all the remineralization processes by the microbial loop and by the zooplankton, so it will determine which part of the CO2 fixed in surface (epipelagic, euphotic zone), that will be sequestrated in the ocean floor and which part will be remineralized (and reinjected to the surface through e.g. winter mixing or mixing/transport by animals) -> this zone is of extreme importance in the phenomenon that we call "oceanic biological pump". A quarter of the CO2 produce each day by humans goes to the ocean -> what are the capacities of the ocean to stock CO2? Is it getting saturated? Can we accelerate the pumping of carbon by fertilizing ocean surface? what will be the role of ocean in global warming? ... All answers need a deep understanding of the mesopelagic zone, one of the less known zone of the ocean!
What kinds of animals lives in the polar zone?
snow bears
In which ocean zone are the piglet squid found?
epipelagic zone (sunlight zone)- as deep as 200 meters, until they reach full maturation, then the will descend into the mesopelagic zone (twilight zone).
