pelagic
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Anglers like McKinney and Johnston have ripped west through the river to go out to the mouth of Lake Ontario, on the prowl for large, pelagic, open-water fish that can win tournaments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
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
They then employed Bayesian models to reconstruct ancestral habitats, revealing that ceratioids originated from benthic ancestors before transitioning to the pelagic zone.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
The tadpoles of S. baudini, cyanosticta, phaeota, and puma are pelagic inhabitants of shallow ponds.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
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