Meaning & use
bathyal
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Relating to or inhabiting the ocean depths between roughly 200 and 4,000 meters, corresponding to the continental slope.
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Bathyal fish species are adapted to survive in near-total darkness and high pressure.
The submersible descended into the bathyal zone to study deep-sea corals.
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"Bathyal" comes from the Greek "bathys," meaning deep, and sits between the shallower "sublittoral" and the deeper "abyssal" ocean zones.
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