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- adjective Belonging to the
infauna .
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Presumably, these animals were searching for what we call infaunal prey: that is, animals that are living buried in the sediment, like molluscs, worms and burrowing crustaceans.
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Yellowfin sole, Alaska plaice, and rock sole consume mostly infaunal prey such as polychaetes, clams, and echiuran worms.
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The upper or back-bay invertebrate fauna is dominated by infaunal species that brood their young.
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California 2007
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Several species of large infaunal clams are abundant along the main channel.
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California 2007
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Taxa such as Ernietta and Pteridinium, built on simple modular units and apparently with an infaunal mode of life, may well be giant protistans.
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Yellowfin sole, Alaska plaice, and rock sole consume mostly infaunal prey such as polychaetes, clams, and echiuran worms.
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One final thing that has to be mentioned ... if plesiosaurs and/or ichthyosaurs and/or thalattosuchians really were in the habit of ploughing through sediment in quest of infaunal prey, how were they finding these animals?
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And Janira maculosa), snails (Alvania sp.) and barnacles (Tonicella sp.), are observed together with infaunal polychaetes, nematodes, bivalves (
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