Property:Definition
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Organisms able to undertake a rapid jump or hop several times their own body length, using specialised limbs or appendages (e.g. sand hoppers, spring tails, grass hoppers etc) +
Early adult life stage of an organism that shares the morphology and ecology of the adult but is not capable of reproduction. +
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composed of keratin, a fibrous protein rich cysteine constituent of intermediate filaments (keratin filaments), chief material in horn, hair, nails and the upper layer of skin (derived from Lawrence, 2005). +
In which the female of one species steals the food reserves or prey of a female of another species, to feed her own progeny (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998) +
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Enclosed bodies of water, separated or partially separated from the sea by shingle, sand or sometimes rock and with a restricted exchange of water with the sea, yielding varying salinity regimes. +
Lance shaped and usually elongate (Brusca, 1980). +
>512 mm; likely to be stable (Hiscock, 1996). +
Large colonies of indivduals cooperating for mutual benefit, made up of thousnads or more individuals, often with a dominant matriach, e.g. social incests , bees etc. +
An independent, motile, developmental stage of an organism, that differs in morphology and ecology from the juvenile or adult stage, and undergoes a metamorphosis to become the juvenile or adult (adapted from Ruppert & Barnes, 1994; Barnes <em>et al.</em>, 2006). +
Description of how the larvae or juveniles develop into adults +
Description of the period of time over which larval settlement occurs. +
Duration of the larval stage recorded in days or months. +
A description of the preferred substratum for larval settlement +
A taxon is Least Concern when it has been evaluated against the criteria and does not qualify for critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category. +
Development at the expense of internal resources (i.e. yolk) provided by the female (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993). +
The stages an organism passes through between the production of gametes by one generation and production of gametes by the next generation (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998) +
Traits that describe the life history characteristics of an organism +
Stone-boring; an organism that burrows into rock. +
