Examples of 'filter feeder' in a sentence

Meaning of "filter feeder"

filter feeder ~ A type of organism that feeds by filtering small particles, usually food, from water or air
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  • Any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.

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This is a filter feeder feeding mainly on plankton.
Instead the crab becomes a filter feeder.
It is a filter feeder that mainly consumes plankton.
The giant barrel sponge is a filter feeder.
It is a filter feeder and captures plankton with its long feathery arms.
Echinoderms are generally not filter feeder animals.
The mussel is a filter feeder that feeds on phytoplankton, zooplankton and suspended organic materials.
The horse mussel is a filter feeder.
Filter feeder animals, such as bivalve molluscs, can accumulate micro-organisms representing a risk for public health.
It was probably a filter feeder or a scavenger.
Such requirements should also apply to echinoderms which are not filter feeder.
This makes the whale shark a filter feeder similar to whales and smaller sea animals.
The Japanese sea lily is a filter feeder.
Like baleen whales, it is a filter feeder and primarily consumes plankton.
Nigra is a predator, scavenger and filter feeder.

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The Giant Pearl Mussel is a filter feeder but its exact diet is not known.
Like almost all other bivalves, this species is a filter feeder.
Pliosaur Pliosaurus ( right ) harassing the filter feeder fish Leedsichthys during the Jurassic.
Like other demosponges, the orange elephant ear sponge is a filter feeder.
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Like other acorn barnacles, Megabalanus tintinnabulum is a filter feeder.
It is a shallow-water filter feeder that prefers mud-sand bottoms.
Mulinia lateralis is a filter feeder.
Rhyacophila minor is a caseless predator and W. moesta is a net-spinning filter feeder.
Ventalina is a filter feeder.
Like other sponges, Neofibularia nolitangere is a filter feeder.
It is a sessile filter feeder.
Like other sponges, Oscarella lobularis is a filter feeder.
Spectabilis is a filter feeder.
The world 's second largest fish, the basking shark, is also a filter feeder.
Ciona savignyi is a filter feeder.
Marine gastropods are generally not filter feeder animals.
No other mud shrimp is known to be a filter feeder in this way.
Aplidium solidum is a filter feeder.
Corculum cardissa is a filter feeder.
Molgula occulta is a filter feeder.
Lepas anserifera is a filter feeder.
It is an omnivorous filter feeder.
If so, it would be the largest terrestrial filter feeder in history.

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