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32 relations: Azolla, Bacteria, Beetle, Benthos, Cyanobacteria, Diving bell spider, Dolomedes, Eichhornia crassipes, Fern, Fish, Flying fish, Gastropoda, Gerridae, Gerris, Great Pacific garbage patch, Habitat, Hydrocharis, Hypogastrura, Lemna, Nekton, Organism, Pistia, Plankton, Podura, Protozoa, Salvinia, Sminthurides, Spider, Springtail, Surface tension, Whirligig beetle, Wolffia.
Azolla
Azolla (mosquito fern, duckweed fern, fairy moss, water fern) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.
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Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.
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Benthos
Benthos is the community of organisms that live on, in, or near the seabed, also known as the benthic zone.
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Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, and are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.
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Diving bell spider
The diving bell spider or water spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only species of spider known to live almost entirely under water.
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Dolomedes
Dolomedes is a genus of large spiders of the family Pisauridae.
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Eichhornia crassipes
Eichhornia crassipes, commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin, and is often a highly problematic invasive species outside its native range.
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Fern
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Flying fish
The Exocoetidae are a family of marine fishes in the order Beloniformes class Actinopterygii.
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Gastropoda
The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.
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Gerridae
The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, or jesus bugs.
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Gerris
Gerris is a bug genus in the family Gerridae (water striders).
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Great Pacific garbage patch
The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean discovered between 1985 and 1988.
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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Hydrocharis
Hydrocharis is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.
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Hypogastrura
Hypogastrura is a genus of springtails and allies in the family Hypogastruridae.
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Lemna
Lemna is a genus of free-floating aquatic plants from the duckweed family.
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Nekton
Nekton or necton refers to the aggregate of actively swimming aquatic organisms in a body of water.
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Organism
In biology, an organism (from Greek: ὀργανισμός, organismos) is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life.
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Pistia
Pistia is a genus of aquatic plant in the arum family, Araceae.
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Plankton
Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.
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Podura
Poduridae is a small family of stout-bodied springtails containing only the single genus Podura, and making up the monotypic superfamily Poduroidea.
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Protozoa
Protozoa (also protozoan, plural protozoans) is an informal term for single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, which feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris.
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Salvinia
Salvinia, a genus in the family Salviniaceae, is a floating fern named in honor of Anton Maria Salvini, a 17th-century Italian scientist.
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Sminthurides
Sminthurides is a genus of globular springtails in the family Sminthurididae.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
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Springtail
Springtails (Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects (the other two are the Protura and Diplura).
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Surface tension
Surface tension is the elastic tendency of a fluid surface which makes it acquire the least surface area possible.
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Whirligig beetle
The whirligig beetles are a family (Gyrinidae) of water beetles that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim underwater when threatened.
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Wolffia
Wolffia is a genus of nine to 11 species which include the smallest flowering plants on Earth.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuston
