| Reichardt found algal fragments on both sides of the Peninsula and suggested that algal material provided an additional carbon source to deep water benthic infauna. |
| These structures may also protect infauna from epibenthic predators, leading to higher clam survivorship. |
| These sediments are often bioturbated by an infauna that lived in them. |
| High densities of organisms that bind the sediment and modify wave-induced erosion potential can also mitigate wave disturbance effects on other infauna. |
| Creatures that live in the substrate are called infauna whereas the ones on top of the substrate are called epifauna. |
| Bivalves first appeared during the early Cambrian as part of a shallow infauna. |
