Jenis-jenis fauna utama
yang terdapat di dasar lautan (Open University Course in oceanography unit 10,
1977)
Phylum
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Subgrup
dan nama umum
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Cnidaria
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Hydrozoa (hydroid coelenterates
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Plathyhelminthes
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Turbellaria (Flatworms
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Annelida
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Polychaeta (bristle worms, lugwworms)
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Mollusca
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Gastropoda (snails and sea-slugs)
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Anthropoda
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Crustacea (especially ostracods, copepods,
ciripedes, malacostracans)
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Echinodermata
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Crinoidea (sea lilies)
Holothuroidea (Sea- cucumbers)
Echinoidea ( sea- urchins)
Asteroidea (starfish)
Ophiuroidea (brittle stars)
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Hemichordata
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Enteropneusta (acron-worms)
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Chordata
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Urochordata (sea-squirts)
Cephalochordata (Amphioxus)
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Various types of invertebrate fauna, are often found in the benthos. They have a very wide size range that is of the size of protozoa up to the size of crustasea and mollusks.This measure is sometimes used as a basis for their mengkalsifikasikan.Microfauna this term is used to describe the fauna that have a size smaller than 0.1 mm. the whole protozoa included in this class.Meiofauna is a group of animals that have a size of between 0.1 mm-1.0 mm. This includes a large group of protozoa, Cnidaria, worms are small and some are so small that crutasea.Macrofauna include animals that have a size greater than 1.0 mm. including Echinodermata, crustasea, annelids, mollusks and members of several other phyla.Another way to classify benthic fauna is to look at their relationship to a place of life. All
the animals that live on the surface of the ocean floor known as
epifauna and that his life by digging a hole in the bottom of the ocean
known as infauna.
