Imagine an ocean researcher brings you a sample with the following information. how would you classify the organism? long, thin body, removed from sediments, found near shore on the contentental shelf

I think benthic would be the best answer, as benthic creatures are known to live at the very bottom of oceans or lake and they like to live in a sediment surface! Nektons are sea creatures who are known as a living organism able to swim against the ocean's currents freely. Plankton are just little organisms that float around in the ocean and do their own thing. I really hope this helps in some way!!