bottom dwellers
Floor-living aquatic creatures
Bottom dwellers are creatures that live on or near the floor of a body of water—catfish, flounder, crabs, and the like.
The term extends figuratively to people at the lowest level of society or a hierarchy, often with contempt: The tabloid catered to bottom dwellers of the media world.
Someone called a bottom dweller occupies the dregs, whether by circumstance or character.
- catfishBarbeled freshwater bottom-feeder
- flounderStruggle awkwardly, or seafood
- scavengersCreatures consuming dead matter
- benthicOf the sea bottom
- ocean depthsUnderwater zones beyond light
underclass · low life · crustaceans · disenfranchised · downtrodden · down and out · sediment · starfish · outcasts · mollusks · marginalized · sea cucumbers · ocean floor · sea bed · subaltern · gobies · proletariat · tube worms
- marine ecosystemsphytoplankton, oceans, zooplankton, marine life, krill
- bottom dwellersflounder, sole, flatfish, halibut, rays
- Cory Catfishbony plates, barbels
- seafloorseabed, seafloor, ocean floor, mid-ocean ridge, sea bed
- plecosplecos
- sawsharksrostrum, barbels
bottom dwellerstop dogs
Those with ultimate authority
elites · high rollers · upper crust · cream of the crop · top tier