Sentences with phrase «of small crustaceans»

Diet consists of small crustaceans, including tiny mysid shrimp, as well as worms and other invertebrates.

They corresponded with each other, and we know that Steenstrup lent Darwin cirripedes — a family of small crustaceans.

At the outset, only a few gallons of the small crustacean were collected weekly by members of the San Francisco Aquarium Society and fed to the aquarium fishes.

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Existing haemorrhage control devices comprise a syringe filled with small capsules of cellulose - based sponge, coated with chitosan, a natural agent derived from the shells of shrimp and other crustaceans that promotes blood clotting.

The concentrations are lethal to a small, shrimp - like crustacean called Hyalella azteca - a species commonly used in laboratories to investigate the effects of pesticides on invertebrates necessary for healthy rivers.

Though the mass extinction wiped out staggeringly high numbers of species, they barely touched the overall «functional» diversity — how each species makes a living, be it filtering phytoplankton or eating small crustaceans, burrowing or clamping onto rocks.

The researchers found that the effects are largely determined by the presence or absence of different fauna, primarily small algae - eating crustaceans.

Rivers were full of food but caves have only what is washed in by seasonal floods — some small aquatic crustaceans, decomposing matter and detritus in the mud.

(An analysis of museum - preserved specimens hints that G. bonplandi eats small crustaceans and juvenile squid, possibly even those of its own species.)

Baleen whales get their name from the frayed slabs of fingernail - like material they use to strain tiny crustaceans and small fish from mouthfuls of seawater.

The team had noticed hundreds of invertebrates, mostly small crustaceans, visiting turtle - grass flowers.

These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.

Whilst the Atlantic cod hunts different copepods, sea butterflies and also small fish, and therefore enjoys a varied diet, the Polar cod only has its sights set on certain types of crustaceans.

Many of them prefer to eat small crustaceans, worms and insect larvae.

At places the wall is 15m high and they are thick with small Nudibranches, Pygmy Seahorses, Lembeh Seadragons and a variety of unusual crustaceans.

Its diet consists of small fish, crustaceans and squid.

While the crustaceans most easily seen are the larger forms, like the commercial lobster, myriads of small ones live in the marine waters feeding on debris and microscopic marine life.

The complicated ecosystem of the reef supplies food and shelter to a huge variety of baitfish and small crustaceans that, in turn, attract larger predators.

They eat primarily mullusks (snails) and crustaceans (shrimp, crabs, etc.) also smaller amounts of echinoderms (sea urchins, starfish, brittle stars), sponges, and plants.

Instead of teeth, gray whales possess baleen plates that hang from their upper jaw to form a sieve for filtering mostly benthic, mud - dwelling creatures such as worms, crustaceans and other small animals out of the bottom muck.

Schools of manta rays, reef sharks and wobbegongs may grab the limelight, but the real beauty lies in the variety of colourful smaller creatures that you can see, such as nudibranchs, shrimps, crabs and other crustaceans, pipefish and seahorses.

Small touches like flecks of glitter sparkling through your ink or the more fluid animations of the supporting cast of crustaceans pop and are pleasing to the eye, bringing the game world to life in ways previously unimaginable.

UB graduate student Matthew Ballinger helps to prepare sediment cores from a small lake on the Alaskan tundra that contains a new species of the crustacean Eurycercus.

Every year, their factory ships are vacuuming up bigger quantities of small mesopelagic crustaceans such as copepods and krill.