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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Living on the surface of the sea only at night, and sinking to the depths of the sea during the day. Pyrosoma, most pteropods and heteropods, and many crustaceans, medusæ, and siphonophores, are examples of nyctipelagic organisms.

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