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Pteropoda (common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods.Most live in the top 10 m of the ocean and are less than 1 cm long.
Most pteropods have some form of calcified shell, although it is often very light, even translucent. [ 3 ] The sea butterflies include some of the world's most abundant gastropod species; [ 1 ] as their large numbers are an essential part of the ocean food chain, they are a significant contributor to the oceanic carbon cycle .
Pteropods are strict pelagic mollusks that are highly adapted to life in the open ocean. [11] They are actively swimming in the water. Limacina helicina is a holoplanktonic species. Habitat of Limacina helicina is upper epipelagic and glacial. [16] It lives in temperatures from -0.4 °C to +4.0 °C or rarely up to 7 °C. [27]
Pteropods are severely affected because increasing acidification levels have steadily decreased the amount of water supersaturated with carbonate which is needed for the aragonite creation. [ 108 ] When the shell of a pteropod was immersed in water with a pH level the ocean is projected to reach by the year 2100, the shell almost completely ...
The adaptations also explain the common name sea angel and the scientific name of the order: From Greek gymnos meaning "naked" and soma meaning "body". The lack of a heavy shell for gymnosomes allows them to hover on the upper water surfaces for longer periods, along with a streamlined body that reduces the drag coefficient.
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Microorganisms make up about 70% of the marine biomass. [4] A microorganism, or microbe, is a microscopic organism too small to be recognised adequately with the naked eye. In practice, that includes organisms smaller than about 0.1 mm. [12]: 13