microphagous


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microphagous

(of an aquatic organism) collecting very small particles suspended in water and consuming them as food. see FILTER FEEDER.
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The small size of Bathypterois mediterraneus is important in its feeding because Sulak (1984b) postulated that small-bodied components of the abyssal fauna are microphagous (e.g.
Feeding ecology of the Mediterranean spiderfish, Bathypterois mediterraneus (Pisces: Chlorophthalmidae), on the western Mediterranean slope
Some gastropods feed by scraping the substrate with their radula, such as the limpet (Patella) and other patellar gastropods, and the littorinids, which are microphagous or have beak-like mouthparts they can use to tear plants to pieces or to graze on small plants and diatoms, in a way similar to sea urchins.
2 Life on coastlines with tides
Scaling of gut size and feeding structures probably forces benthic juveniles to forage differently from the microphagous deposit- or suspension-feeding adults (Jumars et al.
Intraspecific variations in delta13C indicate ontogenetic diet changes in deposit-feeding polychaetes
Further, most bufonid anurans are microphagous suspension-feeders that eat fungi, detritus, microorganisms such as bacteria and protozoans, as well as algae (Wassersug, 1975; Duellman and Trueb, 1986).
Snail-tadpole interactions in streamside pools
Amphibalanus amphitrite is more microphagous in nature and is capable of feeding on phytoplankton and debris (Desai and Anil, 2004).
Coliform accumulation in Amphibalanus amphitrite (Darwin, 1854) (Cirripedia) and its use as an organic pollution bioindicator in the estuarine area of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil/Acumulacao de coliformes em Amphibalanus amphitrite (Darwin, 1854) (Cirripedia) e seu uso como bioindicador de poluicao organica na area estuarina do Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
58), that entered the benthic food chain through microphagous herbivorous fish and detritivores that exploit coralline substrates that are dead as a result of natural or human interference.
4 Humans and the sea
For microphagous feeding (2) yeast cells were labeled with the dye Evans blue.
Localization of digestion activities in the sea anemone Haliplanella luciae

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