লক্ষ্য করুন: এই এন্ট্রির অনুবাদ বর্তমানে মান পর্যালোচনার অধীনে রয়েছে, তাই কিছু বিষয়বস্তু সাময়িকভাবে শুধুমাত্র ইংরেজিতে প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে।
এই এন্ট্রিটি এখনও আপনার ভাষায় অনুবাদ করা হয়নি, তাই নিচে মূল লেখাটি দেখানো হচ্ছে।
infauna
This term is a specialized biological descriptor used primarily in marine biology and ecology. It describes a specific ecological niche, contrasting with epifauna, which refers to organisms living on the surface of the substrate. The term carries a neutral, scientific register and is rarely used outside of academic or technical reports regarding benthic environments.
As a collective noun referring to a group of organisms, it is treated as an uncountable mass noun. It describes the entire community of burrowing animals rather than individual creatures, meaning it does not take a plural form in standard scientific usage.
Meanings
Examples
The researchers collected core samples to analyze the benthic infauna.
Look at all these tiny worms and clams living as infauna in the mud.
I wonder how the infauna survives in such low oxygen levels.
Pollution in the harbor has significantly reduced the diversity of the local infauna.
The study focuses on the interaction between epifauna and infauna on the ocean floor.
We need to categorize the infauna by size to determine the biomass.
The sediment was teeming with various types of infauna.
Does this specific species of polychaete count as infauna or epifauna?