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  • ocean zonation
    marine ecosystem
    / Benthos

    …material in sediments are called deposit feeders (e.g., holothurians, echinoids, gastropods), those that feed on the plankton above are the suspension feeders (e.g., bivalves, ophiuroids, crinoids), and those that consume other fauna in the benthic assemblage are predators (e.g., starfish, gastropods). Organisms between 0.1 and 1 millimetre constitute the meiobenthos.…

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    …material in sediments are called deposit feeders (e.g., holothurians, echinoids, gastropods), those that feed on the plankton above are the suspension feeders (e.g., bivalves, ophiuroids, crinoids), and those that consume other fauna in the benthic assemblage are predators (e.g., starfish, gastropods). Organisms between 0.1 and 1 millimetre constitute the meiobenthos.…

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