| The Gem Shell is also a filter feeder and only 4 mm in size, but it occurs in very dense populations. |
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| The team also recorded an invasive species of marine invertebrate filter feeder. |
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| The common cockle Cerastoderma edule is a bioturbating filter feeder that is widespread along the European Atlantic coastline. |
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| This is expected to have positive effects on higher trophic levels, such as fish, and improve water quality, by enlarging filter feeder biomass. |
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| This filter feeder, if established, would compete with native fishes for plankton. |
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| The Round Pigtoe is a filter feeder, consuming bacteria, algae, organic detritus and protozoans. |
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| Issue: The oyster is a filter feeder that is essential to the health of the waters where oysters are found. |
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| This involves transferring the discharge water to a shallow pond after passing through an initial settling pond and filter feeder section. |
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| Conservationists now worry that the paddlefish, a dinosaur-age filter feeder with a head shaped like a giant Popsicle stick, may need to be protected like the sturgeon. |
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| As the endangered whale shark is a filter feeder, it does not eat other fish and makes an excellent tourist attraction for the aquarium. |
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| However, the shape of the long, slender, toothless snout suggests the animal wasn't a filter feeder either. |
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| The study organism, Donax serra Röding, is a fairly typical intertidal filter feeder that dominates the macrofaunal communities on many southern African sandy beaches. |
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| With its five foot wide mouth and hundreds of rows of teeth, whale sharks eat microscopic organisms in the water called plankton, giving them the name filter feeder. |
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| In behaviour, the great white is an active predator of large animals and not a filter feeder. |
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| However, the newly discovered sieve-like structure suggests that Gallimimus should be crowned as the all-time largest known terrestrial filter feeder. |
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| The whale shark is a filter feeder which consumes plankton which they scoop up in their gaping mouths while swimming close to the water's surface. |
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| The role of bivalve filter feeder material fluxes in estuarine ecosystems. |
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