Holoplankton
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'''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.
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[[Category:Aquatic ecology]]
[[Category:Planktology]]
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