| His work has focused on the whales' principal food, the inch-long, shrimplike marine animals known as krill. |
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| Much damage may be done to rice paddies by burrowing crabs of various species and by the mud-eating, shrimplike Thalassina of Malaya. |
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| These toothpick-sized, shrimplike crustaceans thrive in vast quantities in Antarctic waters. |
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| Semipalmated Sandpipers feed on insects and tiny, mostly shrimplike, water animals that collectively are called aquatic invertebrates. |
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| They spend the summer in polar waters, feeding on shrimplike crustaceans called krill. |
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| Microscopic forms of phytoplankton feed deep-sea invertebrates, small, shrimplike crustaceans, bivalves, and sponges, which in turn support such fish as cod, herring, salmon, plaice, and catfish. |
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| Krill: A shrimplike creature that lives in large numbers in polar waters. |
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| Almost all of the largest cetaceans are baleen whales, yet most of them eat small fish and tiny shrimplike animals known as krill, which gather in huge swarms below the water surface. |
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| The most important organism in the higher food chain is the small, shrimplike krill, Euphausia superba, only an inch or two in length when mature. |
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| It has been said that a barnacle is a shrimplike crustacean that attaches by the top of its head and then kicks food into its mouth with its feet. |
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| There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages. |
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