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• Traits:MucusMesh  + (Secretion of a simple or complex mucus mesh to filter food particles from water column (e.g polychaetes ''Chaetopterus'' and larvaceans.)
• Traits:Ambusher  + (Sedentary or sessile predators, that wait for prey to come to them, and may or may not use a final pounce, traps or lures (e.g. sea anemones, large hydroids, spiders))
• Traits:CoarseSediments  + (Sediments composed of gravel and sand; inc. gravel, gravelly sand and sandy gravel (Long, 2006))
• Traits:Autotroph  + (Self-feeding. An organism capable of synthesizing complex organic substances from simple inorganic substrates (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Flabellate  + (Shaped like a fan, fanlike (Brusca, 1980).)
• Traits:FunnelShaped  + (Shaped like a funnel)
• Traits:EggPropaguleSize  + (Size (diameter) of macrogamete (egg or ovum) in µm, mm, cm.)
• Traits:Hydrostatic  + (Skeletal support provided by hydrostatic pressure from a fluid filled cavity (e.g. the coelum) surrounded by muscles. Hydrostatic pressure provides skeletal support in sea anemones, jellyfish, nematodes, annelids, echinoderms, and other groups.)
• Traits:MixedCalcareousMaterial  + (Skeleton composed of a mixture of any of aragonite, calcite, high magnesium calcite or amorphous CaCO3)
• Traits:CalcareousSkeleton  + (Skeleton composed of calcareous spicules (sponges/echinoderms), plates, spines, bones or other structures)

• Traits:Filiform  + (Slender and thread-like (Kozloff, 1996).)

• Traits:SmallTribePridePackPod  + (Small group of individuals that work together for mutual benefit, often held together by familial (matriarchal/patriarchal) bonds (e.g. a pack or wolves, a pod of dolphin, a pride of lions, a tribe of humans).)
• Traits:Flaccid  + (Soft, limp, flabby (Brusca, 1980).)
• Traits:Choanocytes  + (Special feeding cell of sponges)
• Traits:Palps  + (Specialist - Protobranch molluscs)
• Traits:GillRakers  + (Specialist - e.g. planktivorous fish such as basking shark)
• Traits:Lophophore  + (Specialist - filter feeding organ e.g. brachiopods, phoronids, bryozoans)
• Traits:PiercingToxic  + (Specialist - modified radula used to inject toxins, e.g. cone shells)
• Traits:InhalentSiphon  + (Specialist - modified siphon to capture prey)
• Traits:OralPodia  + (Specialist - modified tube feet in holothurians)
• Traits:Radulae  + (Specialist - protrusile anterior region of digestive tract; refers to chitinized teeth along the radular membrane (Stachowitsch, 1992).)