Is a Banded Pipefish a Plankton Nekton or a Benthos?

Anonymous

∙ 16y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

Nekton means "free swimming" Benthos means "from the bottom" the Banded Pipefish is a surface dwelling free swimming fish. It is not plankton at all. If it was assumed to be amongst the planton it would be in the broadest possible sense Nekton

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∙ 16y ago

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