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What does neritic mean?

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Adjective
  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 assemblage is characterized by the co-occurrence of epipelagic, mesopelagic and benthopelagic taxa together with neritic taxa.
The occurrence higher in the succession of nummulites and neritic fossils indicates overall shallowing upwards.
These observations point to a complex succession of events all controlling the different carbonate producers, both neritic and pelagic.
Similarities and distinctions between the energy strategies and adaptations in neritic, far-oceanic and euoceanic shark species were revealed.
It is on the continental shelves where shelf, epeiric, neritic, or epicontinental sediments are deposited.

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