Bathypelagic Zone Research Paper

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The jellyfish are among the animals that live in the mesopelagic zone. They have an advantageous adaptation that prevent them from being located by predators. Due its transparent color these animals are invisible to predators in dark environments. Other animals that inhabit the mesopelagic zone are squids, shrimps and worms.
3.3 Bathypelagic zone
The bathypelagic zone is an area that comprises depths between 1,000 and 4,000 meters deep in the Atlantic Ocean. If the mesopelagic zone had almost no sunlight this zone is completely dark, that is, it is part of the aphotic zone since not receive any light incidence. The temperatures in the mesopelagic zone revolves around 4 degrees Celsius in the surface parte until 2 degrees Celsius in the …show more content…

These animals are heterotrophic and depend of the oxygen and organic matter that is dissolved and which decays of the upper zones.
3.4 Abyssopelagic zone
Abyssopelagic zone is localized in a profundity of 4,000 meters until the seafloor. This is an area that the incidence of sunlight is impossible due the high profundity and where the pressure reaches number extremely high. The temperature in this zone also is low, which result in icy waters. Because of this a small quantity of animals are capable to live in this areas and the animals that accomplish this difficult task usually has some adaptations that allow them to survive.
Some animals present in the abyssopelagic zone are some species of echinoderms such as sea cucumber and pig-fish, some types of squid and arthropods like the sea spider. The adaptation that some species of squid have is the coloring transparent of their body allowing them to become invisible to their prey in dark environments such as the abyssopelagic zone. Others animals in turn do not have eyes as these are not used in total darkness

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