Pelagic zone

Sang Woo’s presentation

There is lots of pelagic kinds like

Epipelagic,mesopelagic, Bathypelagic,

abyssopelagic, and hadopelagic.

This is Portuguese man of war. It is on the pelagic zone and it is not a jelly fish although it looks like jellyfish. Its tentacles grow up to 50

meters long and it has venom.

This is a fish called ocean sunfish or mola

mola. It lives in tropical water. Aver-age ocean sunfish has 1.8 meters length and 2.5 meters fin to fin.

Ocean sunfish like to eat jellyfish and they will also eat salps, small

fish, plankton, algae, mollusks, brittle

stars. It doesn't hurt people.

This weird looking fish is called coelacanth and scien-tist thought it was extinct but in 1938 it was discov-ered a guy named Captain Hendrick Goosen. This fish has 8 fins-2 dorsal fins, 2 pectoral fins, 2 pelvic fins, 1 anal fin, and 1 caudal fin.It can grow up to 1.8m.Al-though it is discovered, it is critically endangered.

This turtle is called green sea turtle. Green turtles’ average weight is 68 –190 kg and their lengths are 150 cm. They can swim 32km per hour and green turtles are en-dangered because humans eat them or sell them.

This weird thingy is called Manta Ray. It look like a bird but more bigger than a bird. Manta Rays can grow up to 7m in a width and they eat 30kilogram plankton in one day.

This snake is called (or Hydrophiinae) sea snake and like its name, it spend most of the time

in the ocean. Sea krait’s venom is very powerful. It’s venom can paralyze every system in your body and

cause death. It grows between 150cm to 150cm. They hardly attack humans

This big whale is called humpback whale. They can grow up to 16m long and weighing 30-50 tons. They eat krill and small fish. Humpback whales migrate 25000km and feed only in summer. They don’t attack humans.

This fish is called swordfish. Their common length are 3meter and 536kilograms but maximum is 4.55meter and 650kg. Swordfish can swim 97km/h fast. Swordfish prefer water temperature between 18°C and 22°C.

This fearsome shark is called the great white shark.It is 3.5-4m long and females 4.5-5m. The longest

length is 11.3m. They can have life spans 30 years over. They are dangerous and very strong and they sometimes attack humans. The great white shark is arguably the world's largest known extant macropredatory fish.

This fish is called American angler fish. American angler fish can be 140cm but their usual size is 100cm. This fish has a weird face but this

face are helpful. Its mouth helps to swallow fish that has bigger body than it, also it’s flat

body helps camouflage in the sand and it’s spine can be very strong. It lives in 610m deep down

the ocean.

This fish is called clown triggerfish. This fish can reach up to 50cm in length. It is found in 1~75m and found in tropical Indo-Pacific.

This dotted moray is called laced moray (or black spotted moray). It can grow up to 3m and they are found in Indo- Pacific between 1-45m depths. It has very poor eyesight. They react badly to heavy metals such as copper.

This squid is called vampire squid and it grows maximum 30cm. Vampire squid lives in 600m-900m where there is no light. When predator bites them, they can regen-erate.

This looks like a snail but it isn’t and this lives in the ocean. It’s name is chambered nautilus and its shell’s diameter is 160milliliters. They have no lens and they have 90 tentacles with no suckers.

They live in 1800 feet deep (or deeper) which the are living in 549meters deep where there is no light. They can grow up to 20 centimeters in length. There average life spans believed to be about 20 years.

This fish is called scaleless dragon-fish. It lives in 1524 meters (5000feet) and its maximum length is 12.2cm. They are harmless to humans.

This is called brain coral. Corals are animals and they can reproduce sexually. They are found in 1-30 and sometimes they can be found in 47 meters.

Thanks For watching my presentation about pelagic .

By Sang Woo g.6B