Property:Definition
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F
<0.5 psu +
Shaped like a funnel +
G
Descriptors of the relative size of gametes +
The mean period of time between reproduction by parent generation and the reproduction of the first filial generation (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998); recorded in years. +
Where the species degrades native genetic resources (by hybridizing with native fauna/flora). +
Specialist - e.g. planktivorous fish such as basking shark +
Where the respiratory organs also power and/or provide a feeding apparatus (muco-cilliary feeding) +
An organism that is able to glide through the air (e.g. using some form of membrane) but cannot propel itself through the air (e.g. flying fish) +
Specialist larval form in some freshwater bivalves, characterized by a bivalve shell, with or with a pair of hooks, and a long adhesive thread or tentacle. It lives as a temporary parasite on the gills or fins of fish. In some species a modified glochidium is termed a 'lasidium' before attachment and a 'haustorium' after attachment (Stachowitsch, 1992). +
Free-swimming four armed (lobed) ciliated larva of Platyhelminthes (see Ruppert & Barnes, 1994). +
Having separate sexes/genders (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993). +
fibrous protein in the mesoglea of sea fans (gorgonians) which forms the stiff skeleton of the colony. +
Appendages bear grasping claws (chelae) - e.g. arthropods, crabs, scorpions +
Vertebrate hands, feat, paws etc designed to grasp food items using claws, talons etc. +
1) Particle size 4 -16 mm. 2) Clean stone or shell gravel including dead maerl (Hiscock, 1996) 3) >80% gravel (Long, 2006). +
Mud with 5-30% gravel (see Long, 2006) +
Sand (50-90%) with gravel (>5%) and mud (see Long, 2006) +
Sand with 5-30% gravel (see Long 2006) +
