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demersal [də′mər·səl] (biology) Living at or near the bottom of the sea. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Although tomcod eggs are demersal, yolk-sac larvae and older feeding larvae regularly ascend the water column and would be carried downstream. How many of the following can you define: epifauna, sesile, crevices, infauna, substrate, planktonic, lecithotrophic, demersal, foraminiferan protozoans, macrofauna, meiofauna, abyssal plain, continental shelf, oscillate, flotsam and jetsam. One of the more detailed follow-ups to the Felmersham study came from David Barrat, now of the Demersal Fisheries Program in Canberra, Australia. |
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