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• Traits:Monoraphidioid  + (Resembling a crescent moon (see Olenina ''et al.'', 2006))
• Traits:RotationalEllipsoid  + (Rotational ellipsoid (Olenina ''et al.'', 2006))
• GravellyMuddySand  + (Sand (50-90%) with gravel (>5%) and mud (see Long, 2006))
• Traits:MuddySand  + (Sand (50-90%) with mud (see Long, 2006))
• Traits:GravellySand  + (Sand with 5-30% gravel (see Long 2006))
• Traits:SandMuddySand  + (Sands and sands with mud where sand is the major fraction (see Long 2006))
• Traits:IceAssociated  + (Sea ice, icebergs and other ice-associated marine habitats.)
• Traits:OffshoreSeabed  + (Seabed beyond three miles (5 km) from the shore.)
• Traits:Seizing  + (Seabird specific - probably not - large predators that pounce and grab also)
• Traits:Diving  + (Seabird specific?)
• Traits:Plunging  + (Seabird specific?)
• Traits:FollowingFishingBoats  + (Seabirds)
• Traits:FootStirring  + (Seabirds/Wader)
• Traits:FootPaddling  + (Seabirds/Wader)
• Traits:PickingfromWaterSurface  + (Seabirds/wader)
• Traits:Swimming  + (Seabirds/wader)
• Traits:Floating  + (Seabirds/wader)
• Traits:Dabbling  + (Seabirds/waders?)
• Traits:Doliolaria  + (Second free-swimming larvae (after the auricularia) in the Holothuroidea. It is characterized by a series of flagellated rings around a barrel-shaped body (Ruppert & Barnes, 1994; Stachowitsch, 1992).)
• Traits:Metanauplius  + (Second larval stage in decapod Crustacea; resembles the nauplius but with more appendages (see Stachowitsch, 1992).)
• Traits:TypeIV  + (Second-order opportunistic species (slight to pronounced unbalanced situations). Mainly small sized polychaetes: subsurface deposit-feeders, such as cirratulids.)
• Traits:MucusMesh  + (Secretion of a simple or complex mucus mesh to filter food particles from water column (e.g polychaetes ''Chaetopterus'' and larvaceans.)
• Traits:Ambusher  + (Sedentary or sessile predators, that wait for prey to come to them, and may or may not use a final pounce, traps or lures (e.g. sea anemones, large hydroids, spiders))
• Traits:CoarseSediments  + (Sediments composed of gravel and sand; inc. gravel, gravelly sand and sandy gravel (Long, 2006))
• Traits:Autotroph  + (Self-feeding. An organism capable of synthesizing complex organic substances from simple inorganic substrates (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)

• Traits:Flabellate  + (Shaped like a fan, fanlike (Brusca, 1980).)

• Traits:FunnelShaped  + (Shaped like a funnel)
• Traits:EggPropaguleSize  + (Size (diameter) of macrogamete (egg or ovum) in µm, mm, cm.)
• Traits:Hydrostatic  + (Skeletal support provided by hydrostatic pressure from a fluid filled cavity (e.g. the coelum) surrounded by muscles. Hydrostatic pressure provides skeletal support in sea anemones, jellyfish, nematodes, annelids, echinoderms, and other groups.)
• Traits:MixedCalcareousMaterial  + (Skeleton composed of a mixture of any of aragonite, calcite, high magnesium calcite or amorphous CaCO3)
• Traits:CalcareousSkeleton  + (Skeleton composed of calcareous spicules (sponges/echinoderms), plates, spines, bones or other structures)
• Traits:Filiform  + (Slender and thread-like (Kozloff, 1996).)
• Traits:SmallTribePridePackPod  + (Small group of individuals that work together for mutual benefit, often held together by familial (matriarchal/patriarchal) bonds (e.g. a pack or wolves, a pod of dolphin, a pride of lions, a tribe of humans).)
• Traits:Flaccid  + (Soft, limp, flabby (Brusca, 1980).)
• Traits:Choanocytes  + (Special feeding cell of sponges)
• Traits:Palps  + (Specialist - Protobranch molluscs)
• Traits:GillRakers  + (Specialist - e.g. planktivorous fish such as basking shark)
• Traits:Lophophore  + (Specialist - filter feeding organ e.g. brachiopods, phoronids, bryozoans)
• Traits:PiercingToxic  + (Specialist - modified radula used to inject toxins, e.g. cone shells)
• Traits:InhalentSiphon  + (Specialist - modified siphon to capture prey)
• Traits:OralPodia  + (Specialist - modified tube feet in holothurians)
• Traits:Radulae  + (Specialist - protrusile anterior region of digestive tract; refers to chitinized teeth along the radular membrane (Stachowitsch, 1992).)
• Traits:AristolesLantern  + (Specialist - sea urchins)
• Traits:FilerBasket  + (Specialist e.g. sea squirts)
• Traits:Glochidium  + (Specialist larval form in some freshwater … Specialist larval form in some freshwater bivalves, characterized by a bivalve shell, with or with a pair of hooks, and a long adhesive thread or tentacle. It lives as a temporary parasite on the gills or fins of fish. In some species a modified glochidium is termed a 'lasidium' before attachment and a 'haustorium' after attachment (Stachowitsch, 1992).um' after attachment (Stachowitsch, 1992).)
• Traits:Detected in invasion pathway  + (Species detected in invasion pathways for example in ballast water, or as a hull-fouling organism.)
• Traits:Management recorded  + (Species for which some management action including prevention has been recorded in its introduced range.)
• Traits:TypeII  + (Species indifferent to enrichment, always present in low densities with non-significant variations with time (from initial state, to slight unbalance). These include suspension feeders, less selective carnivores and scavengers.)
• Traits:Alien  + (Species introduced by man into places out of their natural range of distribution.)
• Traits:Reported  + (Species that are 'reported' to be present but with no further information.)
• Traits:Of concern  + (Species that are demonstrating aggressive spread and there is concern about its spread OR species where some concern has been recorded- this may be due to known records of its invasiveness and impacts in other areas of their known introduced range.)