Marine Flora and Fauna.2

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Prepared by:Jalene E. Obrador

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Meaning of FloraFlora --Latin word referring to the

goddess of f lowers.

--refer to a group of plants or tobacteria.

Flora is the root of the wordfloral,which means pertaining to flowers.


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Meaning of FaunaFauna --can refer to the animal life or

classification of animals of a certain region,

time period, or environment.The term is also of Latin origin, and in

Roman mythology, Fauna was the sister of

Faunus, a good spirit of the forest andplains.


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Flora and fauna refers to plant andwildlife, respectively.

It is often used to refer to the

indigenous plant and wildlife of ageographical region.

referring to groups of plant or wildlife

specific to a region or a time period.


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Flora(Plankton Organisms) These organisms are small, mostly microscopic and

have little or no power of locomotion, beingdistributed by water movements.

1. Phytoplanktonincludes all of the following plants,such as the small algae, fungi and sarsagum weeds.

The most important in the economy of the sea arethe algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.


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Diatoms are microscopic, unicellular plants, some ofwhich form chains. They possess characteristic shellcomposed of translucent silica, and have a great varietyof form and sculture.

Diatoms occur as fossil, siliceous shell deposits, calleddiatomaceous earth, and as living producers inpractically all habitats of the broad marine ecosystem.


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Dinoflagellates possess whip-like flagella that provide aslight degree of locomotion.

Phytoplankton organisms are more abundant in natural-rich coastal waters than in offshore oceanic waters.

The primary determinant of phytoplanktonproductivity is the suns radiant energy.


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2. Zooplankton Organisms that are floating or weakly swimming

animals, which include the eggs and larval stages aswell as adult forms


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3. Nekton Community These are actively swimming animals of the marine

ecosystems. They comprise adult stages of suchfamiliar forms as crabs, squids, fish and whales. Someof these undergo long horizontal migration overhundreds of miles; some migrate periodically to greatdepths; and a few live mostly in deep waters, for whichhabitat they possess marked adaptations.


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Reptiles are air breathing animals that live both on

land and the sea. The reptiles which are included inthe nekton community are:

The water snakes which have keeled bodies and tailsflattened like these of fish to aid them in swimming

and turtles which are aquatic tortoises with the limbsflattened to form swimming paddles.

Reptiles associated with marine, estuarine andmangrove areas of the country are snakes, turtles,

crocodiles and lizards.


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4. Benthos Organisms These inhabit the bottom and range from high-tide

level on the shore to deep-sea bottom. There arerelatively few kinds and numbers of animals on thedeep-sea floor. They are mainly mud dwellers,possessing characteristic structures permitting life in aquiet, dark, muddy environment where food is scarce

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