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- Traits:FootStirring + (Seabirds/Wader)
- Traits:FootPaddling + (Seabirds/Wader)
- Traits:PickingfromWaterSurface + (Seabirds/wader)
- Traits:Swimming + (Seabirds/wader)
- Traits:Floating + (Seabirds/wader)
- Traits:Dabbling + (Seabirds/waders?)
- Traits:Doliolaria + (Second free-swimming larvae (after the auricularia) in the Holothuroidea. It is characterized by a series of flagellated rings around a barrel-shaped body (Ruppert & Barnes, 1994; Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:Metanauplius + (Second larval stage in decapod Crustacea; resembles the nauplius but with more appendages (see Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:TypeIV + (Second-order opportunistic species (slight to pronounced unbalanced situations). Mainly small sized polychaetes: subsurface deposit-feeders, such as cirratulids.)
- 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).)
- Traits:AristolesLantern + (Specialist - sea urchins)
- Traits:FilerBasket + (Specialist e.g. sea squirts)
- Traits:Glochidium + (Specialist larval form in some freshwater … Specialist larval form in some freshwater bivalves, characterized by a bivalve shell, with or with a pair of hooks, and a long adhesive thread or tentacle. It lives as a temporary parasite on the gills or fins of fish. In some species a modified glochidium is termed a 'lasidium' before attachment and a 'haustorium' after attachment (Stachowitsch, 1992).um' after attachment (Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:Detected in invasion pathway + (Species detected in invasion pathways for example in ballast water, or as a hull-fouling organism.)
- Traits:Management recorded + (Species for which some management action including prevention has been recorded in its introduced range.)
- Traits:TypeII + (Species indifferent to enrichment, always present in low densities with non-significant variations with time (from initial state, to slight unbalance). These include suspension feeders, less selective carnivores and scavengers.)
- Traits:Alien + (Species introduced by man into places out of their natural range of distribution.)
- Traits:Reported + (Species that are 'reported' to be present but with no further information.)
- Traits:Of concern + (Species that are demonstrating aggressive spread and there is concern about its spread OR species where some concern has been recorded- this may be due to known records of its invasiveness and impacts in other areas of their known introduced range.)
- Traits:Invasive + (Species that are known to be invasive- those species in whose cases evidence of impact has been recorded or which is spreading aggressively.)
- Traits:Present/controlled + (Species that are known to be present in their introduced range and are subject to some control option.)
- Traits:Sometimes present + (Species that are reported as present but only 'sometimes'.)
- Traits:MSFDIndicators + (Species that comprise indicators or compon … Species that comprise indicators or components of indicators for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/marine/eu-coast-and-marine-policy/marine-strategy-framework-directive/index_en.htm), with emphasis on Descriptors 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. emphasis on Descriptors 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.)
- Traits:Not invasive + (Species that has not demonstrated any invasive traits in its introduced range.)
- Traits:Established and stable + (Species that have become established in their introduced range but are not known to be spreading aggressively.)
- Traits:Established and expanding + (Species that have become established in their introduced range and are known to be increasing in abundance and expanding their range.)
- Traits:Established + (Species that have become established in their introduced range.)
- Traits:Border Intercept + (Species that have been intercepted at borders as a result of detection procedures.)
- Traits:In captivity/cultivated + (Species that have been introduced and maintained in captivity or cultivated for example those species that are farmed in aquaculture or mariculture facilities.)
- Traits:Detected in the wild + (Species that have been recorded as present in the wild with no further information.)
- Traits:Eradication unconfirmed + (Species that have been subject to an eradication event but have not been confirmed as eradicated.)