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- locations. The biota consists of a range of organisms. Free-swimming (nectonic) organisms are relatively rare, with the majority of organisms being bottom...
- makes a large, daily vertical migration rising at night to feed in the nectonic zone, and it also migrates southwards in spring and northwards in autumn...
- (Wenlock to Ludlow), or Early Devonian (Lochkovian). It was possibly a nectonic filter, of active locomotion, due to its physiognomy. Lochkovian of United...
- migrated across the Caribbean Seaway, and would have pre**** mostly on nectonic fish that dwelt in the region in which it existed. Also known from the...
- Oligocene to the Middle Miocene. Kentriodontines ate small fish and other nectonic organisms; they are thought to have been active echolocators, and might...
- Gebrayelichthys was probably a pelagic fish that ate plankton and small nectonic animals. J. Ralph Nursall, Luigi Cap****o: Gebrayelichthys (novum), an extraordinary...
- of these fishes is benthic they are known to eat large amounts of the nectonic herring Sprattus fuegensis. They lay egg m****es which stick to the substrated...
- rockfish (S. hopkinsi) and widow rockfish (S. entomelas). They feed on nectonic organism like copepods, krill, and other zooplankton. They are a prey species...
- discovered. Most of the sharks in the basin were lamniforms and were either nectonic (swimming freely in the body of water) or nectobenthic (active just above...