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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A spot on the base of the caudal fin, common in many unrelated fish species.
Industry:Natural environment
Benthic organisms whose shortest dimension is less than 0.5 mm but greater than or equal to 0.1 mm.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, classification based on convenient or conspicuous diagnostic characters without attention to characters which indicate phylogenetic relationship; often a classification based on a single arbitrarily chosen character, rather than an evaluation of the totality of characters.
Industry:Natural environment
One of thousands of tiny air sacs at the end of the bronchioles in lungs. Alveoli are the sites of gaseous exchange between the atmosphere and the blood. Oxygen passes into the lung capillaries and CO2 passes from the capillaries into the lungs and is exhaled.
Industry:Natural environment
The dispersal of plant seeds or spores accidentally attached to the outside of an animal's body; also called "epizoochory".
Industry:Natural environment
