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Cryptofauna is the
fauna that
exists in
protected or
concealed microhabitats.
Epifauna, also
called epibenthos, are
aquatic animals that live on the
bottom substratum...
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Durvillaea antarctica, also
known as
cochayuyo and rimurapa, is a large,
robust species of
southern bull kelp
found on the
coasts of Chile,
southern New...
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vesicomyid and
thyasirid clams, as well as
marine gastropods and
other epifauna similar to
those found in
hydrothermal and cold seep
environments elsewhere...
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ocean floor.
Those living on the
surface of the
ocean floor are
known as
epifauna.
Those who live
burrowed into the
ocean floor are
known as infauna. Extremophiles...
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zooplankton or
organisms or
algae on the seabed; some of
these feed on
epifauna (invertebrates on top of the seafloor),
while others specialise on infauna...
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species attempted eating them. Some of the
exterior ****ociates are the
epifauna, such as
barnacles and Crepidula,
which may be a
hindrance to the crabs...
- handle. Some feed
mostly on
benthopelagic organisms.
Others fed
mostly on
epifauna (invertebrates on top of the
seafloor surface, also
called epibenthos)...
- Phacopida,
family Dalmanitidae.
These trilobites were fast-moving low-level
epifauna and detritivore. They
lived in the
Devonian period, from 414 to 391 million...
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growth is not common, as in moss-turf
communities of sub Antarctica, some
epifauna in the sea,
coral reefs and, in New Zealand, as species-rich communities...
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seawater interface.
Inactive sulfur chimneys have been
found with
affiliated epifauna such as
polychaetes and hydroids.
Fauna like gastropods,
capitellid polychaetes...
