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• Pelagic stingray — Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• Pelagic sediments — Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine grained sediment that has accumulated by the settling of particles through the water column to the ocean floor beneath the open ocean far from land. These particles consist primarily of either the… …   Wikipedia

• Pelagic Ecology of the Low Salinity San Francisco Estuary — Pelagic organisms spend all or part of their lives in the open water, where habitat isdefined not by edges but by physiological tolerance to salinity and temperature. The LowSalinity Zone (LSZ) of the San Francisco Estuary constitutes a habitat… …   Wikipedia

• Pelagic cod — Temporal range: Thanetian to Present[1] Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling Scientific cl …   Wikipedia

• pelagic — [pi laj′ik] adj. [L pelagicus < Gr pelagos, the sea < IE * plāg , to spread out < base * plā > PLAIN1] of the ocean waters; esp., of the oceanic zone, as distinguished from the benthic regions of the ocean …   English World dictionary

• Pelagic fish — A school of large pelagic predator fish (giant trevally) sizing up a school of small pelagic prey fish (anchovies) Pelagic fish live near the surface or in the water column of coastal, ocean and lake waters, but not on the bottom of the sea or… …   Wikipedia

• Pelagic zone — Aquatic layers Pelagic    Photic       Epipelagic …   Wikipedia

• Pelagic Cormorant — Taxobox name = Pelagic Cormorant status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Pelecaniformes familia = Phalacrocoracidae genus = Phalacrocorax species = P. pelagicus binomial = Phalacrocorax… …   Wikipedia

• Pelagic thresher — Taxobox name = Pelagic thresher image width = 250px status = VU status system = iucn3.1 status ref = cite press release |title=More oceanic sharks added to the IUCN Red List |publisher=IUCN |date=2007 02 22… …   Wikipedia

• pelagic — Of, relating to, or living in open oceans or seas rather than waters adjacent to land or inland waters. Fish that spend most of their life swimming in the water column as opposed to resting on the bottom are known as pelagic species …   Fisheries — dictionary

• pelagic — Inhabiting surface waters rather than the sea floor. This term is usually applied to free swimming species such as tunas and sharks; see also demersal and epipelagic …   Fisheries — dictionary