Bathypelagic fish have special adaptations to cope with these conditions they have slow metabolisms and unspecialized diets, being willing to eat anything that comes along.
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Bathypelagic fish are sedentary, adapted to outputting minimum energy in a habitat with very little food or available energy, not even sunlight, only bioluminescence.
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Epipelagic fish occupy sunlit waters down to, mesopelagic fish occupying deeper twilight waters down to, and bathypelagic fish inhabiting the cold and pitch black depths below.
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Flabby benthopelagic fishes are like bathypelagic fishes; they have a reduced body mass, and low metabolic rates, expending minimal energy as they lie and wait to ambush prey.
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Like other oneirodids, they are small, bathypelagic fish with bioluminescent lures . " Phyllorhinichthys " is unique amongst the deep-sea anglerfish in having a pair of fleshy, leaf-like structures on its snout.
