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PLANKTERS Synonyms

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copepod
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• minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish

diatom
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• microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica

dinoflagellate
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• chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton

foraminifer
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• marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude

jellyfish
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• large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

• any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

krill
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• shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales

nanoplankton
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• microscopic organisms found in plankton

phytoplankton
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• photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae

protist
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• free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes

siphonophore
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• a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored

zooplankton
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• animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae

holoplankton
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meroplankton
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microplankton
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