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Seafloor vs Epifauna - What's the difference?

seafloor | epifauna |

As nouns the difference between seafloor and epifauna

is that seafloor is the bottom of a sea or ocean; often covered with sediment while epifauna is a fauna characterized by members whose typical life sites are on the outer surface of their environment, as opposed to within it, e.g. animals living on top of the sediment at the seafloor.

seafloor

English

Noun

  • The bottom of a sea or ocean; often covered with sediment.
  • Derived terms

    * seafloor spreading

    See also

    * benthos

    epifauna

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A fauna characterized by members whose typical life sites are on the outer surface of their environment, as opposed to within it, e.g. animals living on top of the sediment at the seafloor.
  • Derived terms

    * epifaunal