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Euchaeta spinosa Giesbrecht 1893

body length

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5.18 mm

(adult, min)
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7.21 mm

(adult, max)

geographic distribution

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Mediterranean Sea
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/1905

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habitat

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bathypelagic zone
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000211

Definition: The one of an ocean below the 10degC thermocline down to a temperature of 4degC.

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mesopelagic zone
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000213

Definition: The zone of an ocean immediately below the photic zone down to a depth where the water temperature is 10degC (the thermocline).

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photic zone
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000209

Definition: The zone of an ocean from the surface to 200m where photosynthesis can occur, due to the penetration of light.

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parental care

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sac spawner
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/sacSpawner

Definition: Sac spawners lay their eggs into an ovigerous sac. Sac spawners spawn few but relatively large eggs that develop slowly.

Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_(biology)#Crustaceans

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trophic guild

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carnivore
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875

Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue

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zooplankton feeding mode

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filter feeder
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1252491

Definition: a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure

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