pelagic
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They are also highly migratory pelagic predators, meaning they spend much of their lives traveling through open ocean waters and can move energy and nutrients across large geographic areas.
From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026
Harbour porpoises accounted for more than half all the strandings - 2,676 - followed by pelagic dolphins with 1,217 incidents.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
J. janthina are a pelagic snail species, meaning they spend their lives at the surface of the ocean as opposed to in tide pools or along the ocean shore.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
Now the scientists — who were researching pelagic sharks at the country’s Canary Islands — are going to study the anglerfish’s body, hoping to learn more about its uncharacteristic behavior.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2025
River carpsucker feed on the bottom but seem partly pelagic in habit.
From Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas by Deacon, James Everett
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