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filter feeder

any MICROPHAGOUS marine or freshwater animal that creates currents, usually by ciliary action, so that food particles are carried either into the body cavity, as is the case in, for example, the sea-squirt, or across the gills where the particles are trapped in MUCUS which is carried, again by ciliary action, into the entrance to the gut system. The freshwater clam, Anodonta, is an example of the latter type of filter feeder.
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But, unlike most gastropods, they are primarily suspension feeders (Orton 1912, Declerck 1995, Collin 2001, Shumway et al.
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Dr Jakob Vinther, a lecturer in macroevolution at the University of Bristol, said: "The fact that large, free-swimming suspension feeders roamed the oceans tells us a lot about the ecosystem.
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Active suspension feeders must pump water across their filtering structures to feed, which incurs a metabolic cost (Jorgensen, 1966; Wildish and Kristmanson, 1997).
Passive flow through an unstalked intertidal ascidian: orientation and morphology enhance suspension feeding in Pyura stolonifera
The importance of boundary-layer flows in supplying phytoplankton to the benthic suspension feeder, Mytilus edulis L.
Suspension feeding adaptations to extreme flow environments in a marine bryozoan
Thus suspension feeding preceded the limpet-shaped shell, the latter evolving as an adaptation for resistance to dislodgement in the sedentary suspension feeder (Yonge, 1962).
Size-related obligate and facultative parasitism in the marine gastropod Trichotropis cancellata
1994), and certainly influence the rates of food capture by Metridium senile, a passive suspension feeder.
Effects of flow and seston availability on scope for growth of benthic suspension-feeding invertebrates from the Gulf of Maine
Suspension feeders preferred communities dominated by F.
Water salinity and benthic macrophyte communities are the key variables defining the distribution pattern of benthic faunal assemblages in the shallow water areas of the Gulf of Riga
Despite sponges being grouped with other suspension feeders in previous FD assessments, several studies have clearly identified the diversity of functional roles that sponges perform and the food they consume (Gili and Coma, 1998; Wulff, 2006; Bell, 2008).
Low functional redundancy in sponges as a result of differential picoplankton use
Macrozoobenthos was classified into feeding guilds--deposit feeders, suspension feeders, and herbivores--based on the literature (Bonsdorff & Pearson, 1999) and field observations.
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These included three suspension feeders, one carnivorous polychaete, and four polychaete deposit feeders.
Benthic Communities and the Invasion of an Exotic Mussel in Mission Bay, San Diego: A Long-Term History
Slippersnails are protandric hermaphrodites; are found commonly in stacks attached to rocks, shells, and other hard substrates; and are voracious epibenthic suspension feeders (Gosner 1971, Newell & Kofoed 1977a, Newell & Kofoed 1977b, Weiss 1995).
Observations of feeding in the common Atlantic slippersnail Crepidula fornicata L., with special reference to the "mucus net"
KEY WORDS: benthic-pelagic coupling, bivalves, denitrification, eutrophication, extractive aquaculture, nutrient cycling, nutrient enrichment, nutrient trading, suspension feeders
Ecosystem influences of natural and cultivated populations of suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs: a review

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