Property:Definition
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P
An ambush predator that uses a sudden, rapid movement to 'pounce on, grab or swallow' its prey once the prey in within short range. +
Predatory behaviour in which one animal species captures a member of another species (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998). OR mobile animals that attack kill and consume individual prey items, usually one at a time. +
Species that are known to be present in their introduced range and are subject to some control option. +
Common in OSPAR Regions II, III +
A condition of hermaphroditism in plants and animals where male gametes mature and are shed before female gametes mature (Holmes, 1979). +
A condition of hermaphroditism in plants and animals where female gametes mature and are shed before male gametes mature (Holmes 1979). +
Larval pycnogonid that bears three pairs of appendages, the chelicerae, palps and ovigerous legs (Ruppert & Barnes, 1996). +
Third larval stage in Decapoda, characterized by antennal locomotion (see Stachowitsch, 1992) +
Males develop from diploid fertilized eggs but subsequently eliminate or silence the paternal genome +
An organism that hunts in a team, pack, pod, flock, swarm etc +
An organism that chases after, catches and subdues mobile prey (e.g. predatory polychaetes, squid, fish, otter, seal, seabirds) +
Q
Body size measured in terms of mega, macro, meio/meso and micro. +
Body size measured in numerical values. +
R
Symmetrical about any plane passed perpendicular to the oral/aboral axis (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993). +
Specialist - protrusile anterior region of digestive tract; refers to chitinized teeth along the radular membrane (Stachowitsch, 1992). +
A species which is present at low or relatively low densities; used to describe single occurrences of the species where appropriate. +
A species which is found in relatively low to moderate densities (accounts for non-discrete nature of abundance terms/parameters described here). +
A species which is fluctuates between relatively low to high densities (accounts for such phenomena as population explosions). +
