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. |