Abstracto

Overview of benthos.

Yuxin Ma

Benthos is the community of organisms that lives in, on or near the seabed. The place where they live is called as benthic zone. Worms, cams, sponge, snails etc are some of the benthic organisms that live near marine sedimentary environments such as rocky shores, coral reef, deep seas. The term benthos is a Greek word which means “depths of the sea” that refers to the organisms that live near bottom of the sea.