filter feeders , auch: filter-feeders

It is the food of animals which operate as 'filter-feeders'.

The largest of the sharks and rays are also filter-feeders.

But there was a gap in the fossil record between it and the first appearance of modern filter-feeders, some 100 million years later.

It is a member of the group of pterosaurian filter-feeders.

Many of these organisms are filter-feeders which obtain their food by straining particles through the water.

On dry land the nearest equivalents of the filter-feeders are the grazers.

They were later used as filter-feeders in federally financed sewage treatment experiments, and several escaped into the wild.

Pterobranchs are small worm-like filter-feeders, living on the ocean floor, often in relatively deep waters.

They are generally bottom-living fish, though some are pelagic and probably filter-feeders.

Its members, including the well-studied Nebalia, occur throughout the world's oceans and are usually considered to be filter-feeders.

Similar to these are the filter-feeders, animals that pass a current of water through their bodies and take out of it all the food they need.

Being filter-feeders, most bivalves lead rather sedentary lives.

The largest of the filter-feeders is, however, far from static and is indeed the biggest animal that has ever lived - the blue whale.

Since American paddlefish are filter-feeders, they will not take bait or lures, and must be caught by snagging.

They are mainly filter-feeders, but also consider pigeons to be a particular delicacy, partially out of spite for the birds.

Infestations of the non-native zebra mussel also helped clear the water, as these are filter-feeders.

They are filter-feeders, with a crown of tentacles whose cilia generate water currents towards the mouth.

They were very likely filter-feeders.

There was a colony of giant tube-worms on his side of the channel, harmless filter-feeders.

These nurdles, now saturated in poisons, are eaten by filter-feeders at the very bottom of the food chain, and then make their way up it.

Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders // Hydrobiologia.

True, they are filter-feeders, but not in the sense of turning a dirty, unmaintained, pea-soup pond crystal clear.

The megamouths are docile filter-feeders with wide, blubbery mouths.

Tuvok, is it possible that Navdaq and the other Furies are filter-feeders?

As adults, S. auritus are filter-feeders, feeding primarily on phytoplankton and zooplankton.