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epifauna

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epifauna  (p-fôn)
Benthic animals that live on the surface of a substrate, such as rocks, pilings, marine vegetation, or the sea or lake floor itself. Epifauna may attach themselves to such surfaces or range freely over them, as by crawling or swimming. Mussels, crabs, starfish, and flounder are epifaunal animals. Compare infauna.
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For fishing gear, the data indicated that infauna recovered in sand from the impacts of otter trawls operated inside the closure but that they did not recover in mud, and that epifauna recovered on gravel bottoms from the impact of gillnets used inside the closure.
Effects of a large fishing closure on benthic communities in the ... by Grizzle, Raymond E.; Ward, Larry G.; Mayer, Larry A.; Malik, Mashkoor A.; Cooper, Andrew B.; Abeels, / Fishery Bulletin
Bivalve tissue samples from whelk epifauna (12 mussels and 1 oyster) and whelk foot muscle tissue samples (ranging from 0.
Mortality of the veined rapa whelk, Rapana venosa, in relation to a ... by Harding, Juliana M.; Mann, Roger; Moeller, Peter; Hsia, Michelle S. / Journal of Shellfish Research
Consistencies over regional scales in assemblages of mobile epifauna associated with natural and artificial plants of different shape.
Spatial distribution of macrofauna in a littoral zone with drifting ... by Berezina, Nadezhda A. / Estonian Journal of Ecology
 
 
 
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