Filter feeder

Antarctic krill filtering phytoplankton-rich water.

Indian mackerel straining plankton.

As filter feeders are animals referred to their food ( detritus , plankton ) from the water filter .

Some, mostly sessile (stuck) species, are filtering suspension eaters . They feed by letting the suspension of water and the solid food particles contained in it flow through their sieve devices. Many species, called "strud (e) ler", actively generate a flow of water for this purpose. Others filter the water while swimming, such as the baleen whales , which feed on animal plankton ( krill ). Some species of birds, such as flamingos , filter the water with a cattle beak .

Examples

• sessile
  • Sponges
  • Corals
  • " Wreath sensor " (animals with lophophores , including moss animals , arm pods )
  • Sea lilies
  • Shellfish
  • Tube worms
  • Barnacles (including barnacles , barnacles )
  • Wing gill
  • Tunicates (using gill intestines )

• free living
  • Root mouth jellyfish
  • Hair stars
  • Lancet fish (using gill gut)
  • Querder , larvae of the lampreys
  • Basking shark , whale shark , basking mouth shark , devil rays (using a gill trap )
  • Herring (using a gill trap, seasonally also specifically snapping at prey)
  • Some Coregonus species ("Schwebrenken", behave like herrings) (using a gill trap)
  • Silver carp (using a gill trap)
  • Baleen whales (by means of beards )