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bottom-dwelling

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Adj.1.bottom-dwelling - of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the bottom of a body of water

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The bottom-dwelling crayfish, the so-called 'canaries in the coal mine' of aquaculture (an indicator of good water quality), have been carpeted over by billions of zebra mussels.
Next, the book reviews the various organisms that live in the ocean or that rely on it for food, from bottom-dwelling bioluminescent
Baskin journeys to exotic Antarctica to study the life beneath a seemingly barren landscape and to the more familiar English coast to learn about the role of bottom-dwelling organisms in the ocean ecosystem.
 
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