Most species have long, spirally curved abdomens, which are soft, unlike the hard, calcified abdomens seen in related crustaceans.

Most delphinids primarily eat fish, along with a smaller number of squid and small crustaceans, but some species specialise in eating squid, or, in the case of the Orca, also eat marine mammals.

Most are strict carnivores, with diets consisting mainly of fish, aquatic crustaceans, snails, amphibians, and sometimes birds and small mammals.

Most species are bottom-dwellers that feed on crustaceans and smaller fish.

Most infect insects, but they are also responsible for common diseases of crustaceans and fish.

Most importantly, mangroves are a transition from the marine to freshwater and terrestrial systems, and provide critical habitat for numerous species of small fish, crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans that adapt to feed and shelter, and reproduce among the tangled mass of roots, known as pneumatophores, which grow upward from the anaerobic mud to get the supply of oxygen.

Most of Stebbing's scientific works, comprising more than 110 papers, covered amphipod crustaceans.

Most species are bottom dwellers, hiding in mud or sand to capture their prey of crustaceans and small fish, but some are pelagic.

Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.

Most assuredly ideas are invaluable.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

Most women, in this age of freezers, shop for the entire week on week-ends, when prices are lower.

Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.

Most beakers are graduated in cubic centimeters ( cc. ), making it necessary to convert the result to cubic inches.

Most seams are sewn with backstitch, especially on curved, slanted or loose edges.

Most floor battens are glued and screwed to the flooring.

Most of the data used are from Groth's Chemische Krystallographie.

Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.

Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.

The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.

1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.

Most Jewish mothers are determined to exercise vigilance over the social and sexual lives of their daughters by keeping them home.

Most members of the U.S. Senate, because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they can.

Most library budgets are hopelessly inadequate.

Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.

Most of the female faces are new, or at least not too familiar.

Most references to " amoebas " or " amoebae " are to amoeboids in general rather than to the specific genus Amoeba.

Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters.

Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.

Most salamanders are under long.

Most are free-living in freshwater, such as the commonly studied genus Tetrahymena, but some are parasitic on fish or aquatic invertebrates.

Most spirochaetes are free-living and anaerobic, but there are numerous exceptions.

Most species are free-living bacterivores, but some are opportunists that can cause infections in humans and other animals.

Most mysids are free-living but a few species, mostly in the tribe Heteromysini, are commensal and are associated with sea anemones and hermit crabs.

Most are free-living, but the group includes ( at least as delimited here ) the order Trichurida, which includes whipworms and trichina worms.

Most amphibians lay their eggs in water and have aquatic larvae that undergo metamorphosis to become terrestrial adults.

Most aquatic species have a totally submerged juvenile phase, and flowers are either floating or emergent.

Most aquatic turtles have flat, streamlined shells which aid in swimming and diving.

Most early examples of artificial flies imitated common aquatic insects and baitfish.

Most species are herbivorous as nymphs, feeding on submerged leaves and benthic algae, but many are hunters of other aquatic arthropods.

Most of the aquatic species in the Mackenzie River are descendants of those of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Most species are aquatic and live in varying depths of saltwater, from shallow reefs and shorelines to deep sea bottoms.

Most families of water beetles have larvae that are also aquatic ; many have aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults.

Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region.

Most amphibian larvae and some fully aquatic adult amphibians possess mechanosensitive systems comparable to the lateral line.

Most are able to swim well ; some species are actually semi-aquatic and feed mainly on fish and other aquatic animals.

Most midges, apart from the gall midges ( Cecidomyiidae ), are aquatic during the larval stage.

Most of the species are herbaceous aquatic plants growing in marshes and ponds.

Most seagrasses complete their entire life cycle under water, having filamentous pollen especially adapted to dispersion in an aquatic environment and ribbon-like leaves that lack stomata.

Most authors consider mesosaurs to have been aquatic, although at least some of them may have been amphibious, rather than completely aquatic, as indicated by their moderate skeletal adaptations to an aquatic lifestyle.

Most species live in aquatic habitats and prefer oligotrophic conditions.

Most species are terrestrial, though some are arboreal ( the genus Boophis is morphologically simiar to the tree frogs ) or aquatic.

Most are annual or perennial herbaceous plants from tall, but a few are subshrubs ; some are aquatic.