Holoplankton are organisms that are planktonic for their entire life cycle. Examples of holoplankton include some diatoms, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates, foraminifera, amphipods, krill, copepods, and salps. Holoplankton dwell in the pelagic division as opposed to benthic division. Holoplankton is made up of both phytoplankton and zooplankton ...
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(from the article `zooplankton`) ...organisms are ultimately dependent. Many animals, from single-celled Radiolaria to the eggs or larvae of herrings, crabs, and lobsters, are found ... ...than 0.05 millimetre in size, are divided into two general categories: meroplankton, which spend only a part of their life cycle—usually the ......
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those organisms that spend their entire lives as plankton, such as phytoplankton and zooplankton.
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(Gk: holos=whole; + plankton) plankton organisms which exist as plankton all their lives, like dinoflagellates, diatoms, etc. Other planktonic organisms such as fish and crab larvae, spend only their early youth as plankton.
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holoplankton, holoplanktonic 1. Those organisms that are permanent members of the plankton; floating in the open sea.2. An entire life cycle spent suspended in the plankton.
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Organisms spending all their life in the water column and not on or in the sea bed
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plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
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