Open Ocean Animals List

Most bivalves are ocean animals but some live in freshwater habitats.

Open ocean animals list. Image by Dan90266. It is known that animal life can be found at all depths of the ocean from the surface to the deepest trenches that are over seven miles below the surface. Discover amazing animals that live in the ocean.

One way is to float along on the currents and wait for food to drift by saving energy as you go. Monkfish This is a fish of grotesque appearance that is famous in northern Europe. 1 some organisms living there such as vampire squid and humpback anglerfish produce their own light.

A list of sea animals. Mollusk There are over 85000 different kind of mollusks and about 23 of the animals in the ocean belong to this animal order. The open ocean or pelagic zone is the largest area of the marine ecosystem and contains a diverse environment of life.

From massive marine mammals like whales to the tiny krill that form the bottom of the food chain all life in the ocean is interconnected. A bivalves shell has two parts. Animals such as oysters mussels and clams are bivalves.

A trench is a narrow elongate v-shaped cavity in the ocean floor. As a creature in the open ocean biome you have two options to survive. The discovery of tube worms in 1977 lead to thThe Trenches also known as the Hadalpelagic or Hadal zone are the deepest parts of the ocean.

The clam burrows in the sand to a. Although the pelagic zone has the greatest volume and vertical range of any life zone it is only home to about 10 of all marine species. The endless blue jellyfish move around with the currents of the ocean.