Holoplankton 1754202 216689102 2008-06-02T19:45:53Z 212.76.37.194 pl: '''Holoplankton''' are organisms that are [[plankton|planktonic]] for their entire life cycle. Examples of holoplankton include [[diatom]]s, [[radiolarian]]s, [[dinoflagellate]]s, [[foraminifera]], [[amphipod]]s, [[krill]], [[copepod]]s, and [[salp]]s. ==See also== *[[Plankton]] *[[Meroplankton]] ==Sources== [http://www.amonline.net.au/exhibitions/beyond/holoplankton/ Australian Museum Online] '''Asexual Holoplankton:''' 1. Copepod 2. Physalia physalis 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. To most people jellyfish are probably the most visible and best known of this group. Australian tropical waters contain a huge diversity of jellyfish, all of which are predatory, securing their prey using stinging cells (nematocysts) or sticky cells (colloblasts). The most famous is the Bluebottle or Portuguese Man-of-War Physalia physalis, which washes up in huge numbers on Australian beaches from time to time. {{ecology-stub}} {{micro-stub}} [[Category:Aquatic ecology]] [[Category:Planktology]] [[et:Holoplankton]] [[pl:Holoplankton]]