Where Is Pteropod Found?

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 top 10 m of the ocean and are less than 1 cm long.

Is a Pteropod a producer?

Planktic foraminifera and pteropods are the major zooplankton producers of CaCO₃ and a key component of the ocean carbon cycle (Guinotte and Fabry, 2008). Besides coccolithophores (unicellular phytoplankton), they have an important role in exporting carbon from the surface to the deep ocean.

How do pteropods eat?

Pteropods are little mollusks (related to snails, slugs and squid) that drift around in ocean currents, feeding on nutrient-rich plankton. Their rich diet makes them delicious to many fish. Seals eat many fish, and sharks eat seals and fish, so there it is: not even 6 degrees of shark separation.