Based on the other species the round-tailed basslet was caught with, researchers believe it lives along “the rocky reef bottom or slope at the lower mesophotic or rariphotic zones” — a range ...

They’re going to say no.” Mesophotic habitats see little sunlight yet are still home to a diverse collection of animals, including corals. Image courtesy of NOAA/Marine Applied Research and ...

Once a shallow-water barrier reef system, it now exists in a fossilized form at roughly 50 meters water depth and is now the home to deeper reef communtites in the mesophotic zone 30 to 150 meters ...