apropos

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Foraminifers and pteropods do have such mechanisms, but they face other risks, including declining oxygen levels and rising ocean temperatures.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

“One example are pteropods, which are tiny snails with winged feet that help them swim,” says Perotti.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

But pteropods — tiny, free-swimming sea snails that are an important component at the base of the food chain — seem to be especially vulnerable to the corrosive effects of acidic water.

From Nature • Oct. 10, 2017

Last fall, some of the first evidence of how ocean acidification is affecting organisms in the wild came from scientists investigating Southern Ocean pteropods, tiny marine snails also known as sea butterflies.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2013

Many "worms," crustaceans, pteropods, asteroids, gastropods and hydroids were obtained, and McLean and I had many interesting hours classifying the specimens.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir