(oceanography) Of,pertaining to, or living on the bottom or at the greatest depths of a large body of water. Also known as benthonic.
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Occurring at the base of bodies of water: lakes, oceans, and seas. Benthos refers to life attached to the bottom or moving in the bottom mud.
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- Brotulidae (vertebrate zoology)
- ciguatoxin (biochemistry)
- Lacydonidae (invertebrate zoology)
- Xenophyophorea (invertebrate zoology)
- Anomalinacea (invertebrate zoology)
- Bathypteroidae (vertebrate zoology)
- bioturbation (geology)
- Buliminacea (invertebrate zoology)
- epifauna (zoology)
- Carterinacea (invertebrate zoology)
- Cassidulinacea (invertebrate zoology)
- Endothyracea (paleontology)
- meiofauna (ecology)
- meioflora (ecology)
