unknown word

[The-Wolf]

Hi i've been surfing the net looking up fish etc and I keep comming accross this word,
"benthopelagic"
This is used in relation to enviroment and I cannot find a dictonary online that has this word in it. I've tried scientific, latin, greek, medical dictonaries and encyclopedias.
Anyone have a clue?

 

[jaimoe]

benthopelagic: Living and feeding near the bottom as well as in midwaters or near the surface. Feeding on benthic as well as free swimming organisms. Many freshwater fish are opportunistic feeders that forage on the bottom as well as in midwater and near the surface, also pertaining to forms which hover or swim just over the floor of the sea, e.g. Halosauridae, Macrouridae, Moridae, Brotulidae; the depth zone about 100 metres off the bottom at all depths below the edge of the continental shelf.

http/www.fishbase.org/Glossary/Glossary....h=benthopelagic

 

[judcoynehunter]

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[judcoynehunter]

benthopelagic: Living and feeding near the bottom as well as in midwaters or near the surface. Feeding on benthic as well as free swimming organisms. Many freshwater fish are opportunistic feeders that forage on the bottom as well as in midwater and near the surface, also pertaining to forms which hover or swim just over the floor of the sea, e.g. Halosauridae, Macrouridae, Moridae, Brotulidae; the depth zone about 100 metres off the bottom at all depths below the edge of the continental shelf.

http/www.fishbase.org/Glossary/Glossary....h=benthopelagic

thanks

 

[The-Wolf]

benthopelagic: Living and feeding near the bottom as well as in midwaters or near the surface. Feeding on benthic as well as free swimming organisms. Many freshwater fish are opportunistic feeders that forage on the bottom as well as in midwater and near the surface, also pertaining to forms which hover or swim just over the floor of the sea, e.g. Halosauridae, Macrouridae, Moridae, Brotulidae; the depth zone about 100 metres off the bottom at all depths below the edge of the continental shelf.

http/www.fishbase.org/Glossary/Glossary....h=benthopelagic

Thank you very much I spent an hour or so trying to find that