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infaunal in British English (ɪnˈfɔːnəl) adjective zoology of or relating to infauna Examples of 'infaunal' in a sentenceinfaunal Earthworms are primarily terrestrial infaunal animals, and as such are probably rather poor natural dispersers.Furthermore, these variables effectively explained the spatial structure present in the infaunal community.Benthic infaunal communities are important components of coastal ecosystems.The extinction of marine onychophorans may reflect domination of the infaunal habitat by polychaetes.Contrary of this, the benthic foraminifers are rich, mainly the infaunal forms of uvigerinid species.Slow motile and infaunal species constitute major preys.Short-term temporal variability in infaunal crustacean communities was evaluated against environmental variability.Infaunal associations showed differences that can be explained by the sedimentation patterns.Furthermore, we hypothesize that the infaunal community primarily reflects stochasticspatial events, namely a “first come, first served” process.Probably, the foraminifer was originally a semi-infaunal, free-standing form, thetest of which was partly flexible. |