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What does infaunal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Belonging to the infauna.
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Marine invertebrates include ammonites, echinoderms, bivalves and crustaceans, but infaunal elements are rare.
This study concerns all infaunal brachiopods that possess an inarticulate, organo-phosphatic, linguliform shell.
Why did some of them choose infaunal life at approximately the same time that other organisms developed mineralized skeletons?
Life habit categories included epifaunal, infaunal, shallow infaunal, and deep infaunal.
The remaining five deposit-feeding bivalves are infaunal burrowers.
Lingulids are shallow burrowing infaunal filter feeders of the shallow intertidal zone.

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