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What is Plankton?
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Plankton is made up of animals and plants that either float passively in the water, or possess such limited powers of swimming that they are carried from place to place by the currents.

Holoplankton
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Holoplankton spend their entire lives as part of the plankton. This group includes krill, copepods, various pelagic (free swimming) sea snails and slugs, salps, jellyfish and a small number of the marine worms.

Zooplankton
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Zooplankton are floating or weakly swimming animals that rely on water currents to move any great distance.

Meroplankton
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Meroplankton spend only the larval or early stages of their life as part of the plankton and spend their adult lives on the reef.

Phytoplankton
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Phytoplankton are tiny, photosynthetic organisms.

Crustacean Metamorphoses
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By far the most abundant members of the zooplankton, both in species and total numbers are the crustaceans.

Deepsea Glass Sponge
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The skeleton of this deepsea dwelling glass sponge, Euplectella, is a lattice of silica forming a chamber that houses a mated pair of shrimp.

Lace corals and sea mats - Bryozoa
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Bryozoans are minute colonial animals, with individual members of the colony called zooids.

A Life on the Ocean Waves
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/crustaceans/invertebrates-collection-a-life-on-the-ocean-waves/

The crab Planes cyaneus has a number of common names (including the Columbus or Flotsam Crab) which reflect its ability to literally sail the world's oceans using floating debris.

Shrimps from Uluru
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Crustaceans are among the most abundant, diverse and commonly found creatures in the sea, and are regularly encountered in freshwater ecosystems as well as on land.