Three different hydrographic regimes were identified during the MAR-ECO cruise in the North Atlantic in June 2004 between 59°N and 42°N. Chaetognaths were sampled with a non-quantitative open plankton net through the entire water column. The species composition

A new deep-sea species of chaetognaths, Eukrohnia geptneri, from the Northwestern Pacific is described; the young were registered in the epipelagic zone, while the adult specimens were found in deep depths of the Japanese Depression. Morphologically,

The physical barriers in the meso- and bathypelagic layers of the open ocean are obscure compared with those in terrestrial, coastal, and ocean epipelagic habitats, which has led to the assumption that little genetic structure exists within deep-sea zooplankton