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stygobiont

adj

Etymology

From stygian + -biont.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of stygobitic.

    • The stygobiont anthurids are only present in the tropics.

  2. An instance of stygofauna.

    • Stygobionts overwhelmingly comprise crustaceans belonging to many higher taxa, including those with broad ecological and geographical distributions (such as Copepoda, Ostracoda, Amphipoda, Isopoda, and Decapoda).
    • The new species of Alona is clearly a stygobiont, although accompanied by a fauna which is not exclusively stygobiotic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stygobiont. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA