1855 Nov. 674/1 These..sun-loving surface-dwellers on heaths and hill-sides.
1958 J. E. Morton ii. 35 The order Neogastropoda includes both surface-dwellers on rocky shores and burrowing forms.
1993 Nov. 374 The literal grabbag dress of the surface dwellers who survive by looting, murdering, raping, and bartering.
2002 J. Gooderham & E. Tsyrlin (2005) 145/1 Sometimes the surface dwellers will compete with the fully aquatic bugs for prey.