A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, 8000 North Ocean Drive, Dania Beach, FL 33004, USA

National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, 301 Evans Bay Parade, Greta Point, Wellington, New Zealand

Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA

Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom

Marine Conservation Institute, 4010 Stone Way N, Suite 210, Seattle, WA 98103, USA

NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, 99 Pacific St., Suite 255A, Monterey, CA 93940, USA

National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom

Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Rua Uruguai, 458, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 215 S Ferry Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA

Memorial University, 230 Elizabeth Ave, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3X9

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture 237-0021, Japan

Dept. of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Nakhimovskiy pr., 36, Moscow 117218, Russia

GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany

Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstancow Warszawy 55, Sopot 81-712, Poland

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA

Wycliffe Management, Ul. Korotynskiego 21/34, Warszawa, Poland

Univ. of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands

International Union for Conservation of Nature, L′Institut océanographique, 195, rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris, France

Fisheries Centre, Univ. of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, Canada BC V6T 1Z4

Department of Biology and Hjort Centre for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Bergen, Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway