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What does infaunal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word infaunal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Belonging to the infauna.
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If so, the oldest traces of locomotory activities of the metazoans should be connected with their infaunal life.
The Baltic clam achieves highest densities in mesohaline habitats of the bay where it ranks first in benthic infaunal biomass.
Lingulids are shallow burrowing infaunal filter feeders of the shallow intertidal zone.
In particular, edible infaunal bivalves are often called clams.
Within a particular paleoenvironment the organisms could further subdivide resources by establishing epifaunal, and possibly infaunal, tiers.
Why did some of them choose infaunal life at approximately the same time that other organisms developed mineralized skeletons?

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