
Ecosystem · Land
602 documented species
Species in the spotlight: Whale Shark
Ocean is a living landscape: 602 real species depend on its specific conditions to survive, not on a label on a map.

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Real parks and dive sites where wildlife from this ecosystem lives.
The planet's largest habitat and also its least explored. It is organised in layers: a lit zone where photosynthesis is possible and, below it, a vast dark cold expanse with life adapted to pressure and to scarce food. Currents distribute nutrients and temperature, and both the great migrations and the location of the most productive zones depend on them.
Make-up of its documented wildlife
EndangeredWhale Shark
Rhincodon typus
VulnerableGreat White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
Pygmy Three-toed Sloth
Bradypus pygmaeus
VulnerableWest Indian Manatee
Trichechus manatus
VulnerableAfrican Manatee
Trichechus senegalensis
VulnerableDugong
Dugong dugon
EndangeredSea Otter
Enhydra lutris
VulnerableSouthern Elephant Seal
Mirounga leonina
EndangeredBlue Whale
Balaenoptera musculus
EndangeredFin Whale
Balaenoptera physalus
EndangeredNorth Atlantic Right Whale
Eubalaena glacialis
EndangeredKiller Whale
Orcinus orca
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130 species in this ecosystem are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Other ecosystems that share real species with this one.
Based on what we already know about this ecosystem.