neritic

From or Ancient Greek Νηρίτης (Nērítēs, “minor sea god”) or nerite +‎ -ic.

neritic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a marine environment of shallow waters.
   • 2003, Donald R. Prothero, From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition:

     Accessory benthic foraminiferal events reported by Berggren and Miller (1989) to occur in the late Eocene are the migrations into the bathyal realm from the neritic realm of planulinids and siphoninids.

• sublittoral

• Citrine, citiner, citrine, crinite, inciter, retinic, tricine

Borrowed from French néritique.

neritic m or n (feminine singular neritică, masculine plural neritici, feminine and neuter plural neritice)

1. neritic