How to use in-sentence of “benthic”:
+ Species duration and evolution: benthic forms on the Atlantic continental margin of North America.
+ Most placoderms were benthic predators, near the bottom of the water column.
+ Both benthic and pelagic fauna were faced with conditions they were unable to cope with.
+ Bottom trawling can be either benthic trawling or demersal trawling.
+ About 20% of the known species are benthic and can attach to algae or rocks.
+ Amoebae are often found within freshwater, typically on vegetation in decay in still or slow moving water, or in the benthic zone of some lakes.
Example sentences of “benthic”:
+ On dispersal and planktonic larvae of benthic invertebrates: an eclectic overview and summary of problems.
+ Modern predators like starfish, crabs, and hole-boring gastropods took over the sea floor, eating the benthic fauna in huge numbers.
+ Adult shrimp are Filter feederfilter feeding benthic animals that live close to the bottom.
+ This caused the extinction of about 27 percent of marine invertebrates, including certain planktonic and benthic foraminifera, mollusks, bivalves, dinoflagellates and calcareous nannofossils.
+ The strong, non-lunate caudal fin in most benthic zonebenthic shark species allows the shark to swim close to the seabed.
+ The Notostraca abandoned filter feeding in open water, and took up a benthic lifestyle in muddy waters, taking up food from particles of sediment and preying on small animals.
+ The horseshoe crab or king crab is a benthic or bottom-dwelling creature.
+ Despite the fact that they are able to swim, most rays live at the bottom of the sea, eating benthic animals.
+ As generally benthic fish, blennioids spend much of their time on or near the sea floor.
+ They were food sources for many other benthic organisms.
+ At the start of the 19 century, American paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott noticed differences in early Paleozoic benthic trilobites either side of the line which later was called the Iapetus Suture.
+ They appear earlier in the fossil record, and were benthic animals attached to the sea-floor by a root-like base.
+ This species dives for Benthic zonebenthic invertebrates, such as crustaceans, polychaete worms, and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food.
+ Also, it has been suggested that the basking shark turns to benthic feeding when it loses its gill rakers.
+ Cephalocarida is a class class inside the subCrustacea that has only twelve shrimp-like benthic species.
+ A study of benthic foraminifera showed an average of 16 million years if they lived above 200 metres, but 25my if they lived below 200 metres.
+ Although there are a few benthic species, most are gelatinous zooplankton and form a considerable proportion of the entire planktonic biomass worldwide.
+ This produced a mass extinction of between 35–50% of deep water forms such as benthic foraminifera, and coincided with a major change of mammalian types on land.
+ Bioluminescence is found in the sea at all levels.: planktonic, pelagic and benthic organisms.
+ On dispersal and planktonic larvae of benthic invertebrates: an eclectic overview and summary of problems.
+ Modern predators like starfish, crabs, and hole-boring gastropods took over the sea floor, eating the benthic fauna in huge numbers.
+ Adult shrimp are Filter feederfilter feeding benthic animals that live close to the bottom.