Property:Definition
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P
Males develop from diploid fertilized eggs but subsequently eliminate or silence the paternal genome +
An organism that hunts in a team, pack, pod, flock, swarm etc +
An organism that chases after, catches and subdues mobile prey (e.g. predatory polychaetes, squid, fish, otter, seal, seabirds) +
Q
Body size measured in terms of mega, macro, meio/meso and micro. +
Body size measured in numerical values. +
R
Symmetrical about any plane passed perpendicular to the oral/aboral axis (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993). +
Specialist - protrusile anterior region of digestive tract; refers to chitinized teeth along the radular membrane (Stachowitsch, 1992). +
A species which is present at low or relatively low densities; used to describe single occurrences of the species where appropriate. +
A species which is found in relatively low to moderate densities (accounts for non-discrete nature of abundance terms/parameters described here). +
A species which is fluctuates between relatively low to high densities (accounts for such phenomena as population explosions). +
A later larval stage in siphonophores, composed of a floating colony with a disc-shaped float, and an elongated body surrounded by the rim of the growing disc (Stachowitsch, 1992) +
Species that have reported or recorded in error. +
Common in OSPAR Region II, III +
Where the movement of recreational equipment by humans results in the introduction of an invasive species into a new area/region. +
An organism that forms large areas of hard substratum for other organisms due to the scale of its aggregations (e.g. horse mussels), accretions (e.g. ''Sabellaria'') or its skeleton (e.g. corals). +
Organisms that excavate and maintain burrows in the sediment, which result in sediment transport from depth to the surface (adapted from Kristensen ''et al.'', 2012. +
A description of the season(s) or months of the year during which reproduction occurs +
Traits that describe how an organism reproduces or the mechanism by which reproduction is achieved. +
