pelagic

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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

The usual hue of the living version is greenish-brown, according to John Ugoretz, pelagic fisheries and ecosystem program manager for the department.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

Their analyses show that the rapid transition of ancestrally bottom-dwelling, or benthic, anglerfishes into open-ocean, or pelagic, habitats occurred during a period of major global warming 50 to 35 million years ago.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

The red shiner is pelagic in habit and occurs primarily in pools, though it frequently inhabits adjacent riffles.

From Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas by Deacon, James Everett