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No, salps are not a type of phytoplankton; they are gelatinous marine animals that belong to the class Thaliacea. While phytoplankton are microscopic plants that perform photosynthesis and form the base of the aquatic food web, salps are filter feeders that consume phytoplankton and other small particles in the water. Salps play a role in the ocean ecosystem by recycling nutrients and potentially influencing carbon cycling.
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What are the two types of planktons?
Phytoplankton and zooplankton
What types of ocean creatures feed on phytoplankton?
There are a wide variety of ocean creatures which are known to eat phytoplankton. However, krill are believed to be the main organisms which feed on phytoplankton.
What is marine plankton?
Plankton is a very general term, and is used to describe the tiny, floating organisms in the water. Phytoplankton are plants, and zooplankton are animals. Phytoplankton is usually algae, although zooplankton has many different forms. Zooplankton includes any free-floating animal larvae, some diatoms, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates, foraminifera, amphipods, krill, copepods, and salps.
What are the three primary types of plankton?
What different categories can plankton be placed into?
What are types of plant plankton called that squid eat?
Phytoplankton
What do salps eat?
the name of the avartar guy is jake
What is planktons natural preditor?
Plankton has a number of natural predators. Lobster larvae eat zooplankton and phytoplankton. Zooplankton and phytoplankton eat each other and many types of crustaceans eat both types of plankton.
What are the two types of free floating organisms?
Plankton and nekton are the two types of free-floating organisms. Plankton are small organisms that drift with the currents and include both phytoplankton (plant-like) and zooplankton (animal-like). Nekton are larger, more mobile organisms like fish and marine mammals that actively swim in the water column.
Are plantons plants and animals?
plankton is of 2 types: animal(zooplankton) and plant (phytoplankton)
What are the three body types of algae?
phytoplankton zooplankton meroplankton holoplankton
What is the predator of a salp?
I found a reference to leatherjackets and butterfly perch eating salps on www.marinenz.org.nz
What types of algae are the major constituents of phytoplankton?
The major types of algae in phytoplankton include diatoms, dinoflagellates, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), and coccolithophores. These algae play a vital role in marine ecosystems and contribute significantly to global primary production and nutrient cycling.
