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What does infaunal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Belonging to the infauna.
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Results from a pair of epifaunal and infaunal dendrochirotids from Family Cucumariidae indicate little variation in the relative amount of ossification.
The remaining five deposit-feeding bivalves are infaunal burrowers.
Within a particular paleoenvironment the organisms could further subdivide resources by establishing epifaunal, and possibly infaunal, tiers.
The Baltic clam achieves highest densities in mesohaline habitats of the bay where it ranks first in benthic infaunal biomass.
Why did some of them choose infaunal life at approximately the same time that other organisms developed mineralized skeletons?
This study concerns all infaunal brachiopods that possess an inarticulate, organo-phosphatic, linguliform shell.

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