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The neritic zone (or sublittoral zone) is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately 200 meters...

However, the geographical meaning of littoral zone extends well beyond the intertidal zone to include all neritic waters within the bounds of continental shelves...

epipelagic zone, which includes the coastal or neritic zone. Biodiversity diminishes markedly in the deeper zones below the epipelagic zone as dissolved...

zone, middle tide zone, and low tide zone. The intertidal zone is one of a number of marine biomes or habitats, including estuaries, the neritic zone...

The oceanic zone is typically defined as the area of the ocean lying beyond the continental shelf (e.g. the neritic zone), but operationally is often referred...

Bottom trawling Deep sea Intertidal zone Lake stratification Littoral zone Neritic zone Photic zone Profundal zone Sediment Profile Imagery Stream bed...

pacific as far as Hawaii. Atergatis floridus is an inhabitant of the neritic zone and prefers coral and rubble. It is largely nocturnal. A. floridus is...

continental shelf constitutes the neritic zone, and the benthic (sea floor) province of the shelf is the sublittoral zone. The shelves make up less than...

seabed and the benthos. The demersal zone is just above the benthic zone and forms a layer of the larger profundal zone.[citation needed] Being just above...

at higher elevations on warmer equator-facing slopes. Because the alpine zone is present only on mountains, much of the landscape is rugged and broken...

of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone and another part of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone are subject to the legal regime of transit...

signal an important mating area. Devil fish inhabit offshore areas to the neritic zone, their range as deep as several thousand meters. They are typically observed...

pelagic zone can be further subdivided into two sub regions based on distance from land: the neritic zone and the oceanic zone. The neritic zone covers...

basins Oceanic islands Biomes of the coastal and continental shelf areas (neritic zone): Polar Temperate shelves and sea Temperate upwelling Tropical upwelling...

eastern coast of India, and Sri Lanka. Its natural habitat is in the neritic zone. The stripenose guitarfish lives mainly at the depths of 10 to 40 meters...

intertidal zone is the area between high and low tides. Other near-shore (neritic) zones can include mudflats, seagrass meadows, mangroves, rocky intertidal...

burrows into clean or silty sand on the seabed in the neritic zone and the low intertidal zone. When covered with water this bivalve remains close to...

Pacific. It is very common round the coasts of the British Isles in the neritic zone. The sea potato buries itself in sand to a depth of ten to fifteen centimetres...

conditions. The tidal zone with its periodic exposure to the dehydrating air is home to barnacles, molluscs and crustaceans. The neritic zone has many organisms...

around the globe, found in temperate to tropical ocean waters in the Neritic zone. It is among the dominant species in the Humboldt Current. Esterly, Calvin...