This list of common plankton organisms found in Tanabe Bay and its environs is prepared mainly for the use of planktologists and for researchers or students learning the practical exercises in marine biology at our Laboratory, in order to indicate the general distribution of plankton organisms around the coast and to form a basis for a more complete list of the species occurring in our waters. The environmental conditions are briefly described for each common or characteristic species, with some short notes on their ecology.In this list is excluded either of the transitory plankton such as those benthic forms that have a planktonic larval stage or the epibionts on planktonic or floating objects or organisms. The holoplankton organisms comprising both phyto-and zooplankton listed herein are summerized below.
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