benthic animal in a sentence

Examples

1. Lizardfishes are benthic animals that live in shallow coastal waters; even the deepest-dwelling species of lizardfish live in waters no more than deep.
2. Inhabiting cold waters from the Siberian and Bering Seas south to HokkaidM
   and Monterey, California, ronquils are benthic animals, spending most of their time on or near the bottom.
3. In spring, larvae and juveniles of benthic animals ( e . g . polychaetes and molluscs ) migrate into coastal fast ice to feed on the ice algae for a few weeks.
4. Probably, it laid eggs in a leathery pouch like other rabbit fish, but no occurrences of this have been recorded . " Edaphodon " had a sloping head and a mouth on its underside, allowing it to graze along the bottom of the ocean like a land-dwelling herbivore, but actually it was feeding on small benthic animals.
5. The fossils were found in the " Fram Formation ", deposits of meandering stream systems near the Devonian equator, suggesting a benthic animal that lived on the bottom of shallow waters and perhaps even out of the water for short periods, with a skeleton indicating that it could support its body under the force of gravity whether in very shallow water or on land.