(of marine organisms) growing, living, or situated close to the seashore
a sublittoral plant
2.
of or relating to the zone between the low tide mark and 100 m depth
sublittoral in American English
(sʌbˈlɪtərəl)
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 ft. (200 m)
2.
being or situated in the zone of a lake extending from the lowest depth of rooted photosynthetic plants to the level at which the photosynthetic rate of flora equals the respiration rate
noun
3.
a sublittoral zone or region
Word origin
[1840–50; sub- + littoral]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dope, flan, organizer, plaque, sensationalismsub- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (subject; subtract; subvert; subsidy). On this model, sub- is freely attached to elements of any origin and used with the meaning “under,” “below,”“beneath” (subalpine; substratum), “slightly,” “imperfectly,” “nearly” (subcolumnar; subtropical), “secondary,” “subordinate” (subcommittee; subplot)
Examples of 'sublittoral' in a sentence
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Polychaetes, gastropods and crustaceans prevailed in the sublittoral zone.
Faiza Al-Yamani, Natalya Boltachova, Nikolai Revkov, Mikhail Makarov, Vladimir Grintsov,Elena Kolesnikova, Galyna-Vantsetti Murina 2009, 'Winter species composition, diversity and abundance of macrozoobenthos in Kuwait'swaters, Arabian Gulf', ZooKeyshttp://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=2113. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The sublittoral at the other sites was dominated by kelp.
Stein Fredriksen, Tove M. Gabrielsen, Maia R. Kile, Knut Sivertsen 2015, 'Benthic algal vegetation in Isfjorden, Svalbard', Polar Researchhttp://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/25994/pdf_37. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Both species are found in shallow sublittoral interstitial spaces.
Ronald Vonk, Damia Jaume 2014, 'Ingolfiella maldivensis sp. n. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Ingolfiellidae) from coral reefsand off Magoodhoo island, Maldives', ZooKeyshttp://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=4182. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Three sampling stations were located in each estuary, in both midlittoral and sublittoral areas.
Priscila Porchat de Assis Murolo, Paulo Vladmir Vandenberg da Costa Carvalho, MonicaLucia Botter Carvalho, Lilia Pereira de Souza-Santos, Paulo Jorge Parreira dos Santos 2006, 'Spatio-Temporal Variations of Microphytobenthos in the Botafogo and Siri estuaries(norteast - Brazil)', Brazilian Journal of Oceanographyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-87592006000100002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Three different shelf settings are distinguished: littoral, inner sublittoral, and outer sublittoral environments.
Andrea Mancosu , James H. Nebelsick 2017, 'Ecomorphological and taphonomic gradients in clypeasteroid-dominated echinoid assemblagesalong a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate shelf from the early Miocene of northern Sardinia,Italy', Acta Palaeontologica Polonicahttp://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app62/app003572017.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We collected 256 samples at 12 littoral and sublittoral stations within 2006-2012.
Yu.M. Dzhurtubaev, М.М. Dzhurtubaev, V.V. Zamorov 2017, 'Macrozoobenthos of Cahul Lake (Danube basin, Odessa region, Ukraine)', Ukrainian Journal of Ecologyhttp://ojs.mdpu.org.ua/index.php/biol/article/view/1868. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The difference seemed more pronounced in the littoral zone than in the sublittoral.
Stein Fredriksen, Maia Røst Kile 2012, 'The algal vegetation in the outer part of Isfjorden, Spitsbergen: revisiting Per Svendsen'ssites 50 years later', Polar Researchhttp://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/17538/pdf_1. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Material was collected during several sublittoral benthic surveys.
Jorge Núñez, María del Carmen Brito, Alejandro Martínez, Ana María Palmero 2008, 'Acoetidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Iberian Peninsula, Madeira and Canary islands,with description of a new species.', Arquipelago : Life and Marine Scienceshttp://www.horta.uac.pt/intradop/images/stories/arquipelago/25/Arquipelago_25_49-62_Palmero_etal.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)