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What does neritic mean?

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  1. Describing a marine environment of shallow waters
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Turtles leave their natal beaches as hatchlings, transitioning through the neritic zone to the oceanic zone.
The occurrence higher in the succession of nummulites and neritic fossils indicates overall shallowing upwards.
Similarities and distinctions between the energy strategies and adaptations in neritic, far-oceanic and euoceanic shark species were revealed.
The neritic zone is the first 200 meters of ocean water, which includes the seashore and most of the continental shelf.
These observations point to a complex succession of events all controlling the different carbonate producers, both neritic and pelagic.
The assemblage is characterized by the co-occurrence of epipelagic, mesopelagic and benthopelagic taxa together with neritic taxa.

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