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What does epifauna mean?

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Noun
  1. A fauna characterized by members whose typical life sites are on the outer surface of their environment, as opposed to within it, e.g. animals living on top of the sediment at the seafloor.
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The results indicate that P. lima is abundant among epifauna around the mussel sock, while concentrations are low in the water column.
Creatures that live in the substrate are called infauna whereas the ones on top of the substrate are called epifauna.
There is no escape for the benthic epifauna in space or time-they must be grazer resistant.
Abundance and seasonality of infauna and epifauna inhabiting a Halodule wrightii meadow in Apalachicola Bay, Florida.
A certain number of these species can give rise to facies with epiflora and epifauna.
In the polymetallic nodule areas of the central Eastern Pacific, two species of cosmopolitan distributed mobile epifauna holothurians dominate the abyssal ecosystem.

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