महाद्वीपीय उतार 200 ते 2000 मीटर दरम्यान आहे (महासागराच्या पाताळ सारखा),

bathyal's Usage Examples:

Hydrothermal ExplorationThe bathyal zone is of interest to those studying biogeochemistry or deep sea mining.

Ipnops are small, slender fish that live close to the ocean floor in the bathyal and abyssal zones.

This genus includes only bathyal species.

Many forms of nekton live in the bathyal zone, such as squid, large whales, and octopuses.

A and the lithodid crab Neolithodes diomedeae on a featureless bathyal sediment plain".

The bathyal zone contains sharks, squid, octopuses, and many different species of fish.

Inoceramids tended to live in upper bathyal and neritic environments.

Animals in the bathyal zone are not threatened by predators that can see them, so they do not have powerful muscles.

The bathyal zone or bathypelagic – from Greek βαθύς (bathýs), deep – (also known as midnight zone) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth.

In the bathyal, some of the world's largest whales feed.

The Dana Viperfish is mostly found in the bathyal zone.

, Pediculariinae relique du bathyal de Nouvelle-Calédonie et de la Réunion in A.

is further divided into the mesopelagic zone, the bathyal zone, the abyssal zone, and the hadal zone.