Modes of Life of Organisation

• Benthonic


  Organism lives on/in the sediment on the sea floor
• Infaunal


  Organism lives in the sediment; often in a burrow
• Epifaunal


  Organism lives on the sediment
• Vagrant


  Moves around, either scavanger or predator
• Sessile


  Doesn’t move around
• Pelagic


  Organism lives in the water column
• Planktonic


  Floats around, moving where ocean currents transport it
• Nektonic


  Actively swims in the water column