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Aphotic
Aphotic meaning
Having no light, especially no sunlight. | Describing that part of deep lakes and oceans where less than one per cent of sunlight penetrates and where photosynthesis is not possible.
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Narwhals, being black, hunt in large pods in the aphotic zone, but their underbelly still remains white to remain camouflaged when something is looking directly up or down at them.
Red light can only be seen across short distances due to attenuation of red light wavelengths by water. citation Many fish species that fluoresce are small, group-living, or benthic/aphotic, and have conspicuous patterning.
Some biofluorescence in the aphotic zone is merely a byproduct of the organism’s tissue biochemistry and does not have a functional purpose.
Theoretically, some fish eyes can detect light as deep as 1000 m. At these depths of the aphotic zone, the only sources of light are organisms themselves, giving off light through chemical reactions in a process called bioluminescence.