The establishment of an automatic separation system for marine meiobenthos.

Research of the marine meiobenthos is of great value in the marine ecology and the marine mineralogy. At present, picking up meiobenthos from the sedments manually under microscope is still prvalent in spite of the large consumption of human power and time. So that in this paper, an automatic separation system was established. The excellent performance in separating marine meiobenthos was demonstrated by the precision of above 95%.