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benthonic

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water

How To Use benthonic In A Sentence

  • In the Marine Center (World), I saw sharks, dolphins, infaunas, and benthonic plants. ...
  • Pelagic biogenic sediments consist of the fine-grained skeletal debris of marine planktonic and benthonic organisms.
  • In the seas, the calcareous nannofossils were still in evidence but in shallow waters the benthonic nummulite and other larger foraminifera became very abundant.
  • Endemic marine biota are typical for this interval; the restricted epicontinental seas favoured in situ evolution of benthonic, planktonic and nektonic organisms.
  • In general, trilobites appear to have been benthonic organisms feeding on organic detritus on the sea floor, but some may have captured small soft-bodied organisms which would have been passed forward to the mouth by the limbs.
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