Word.ws English Dictionary

endofauna

endofauna noun: animals from outside of an organism's immediate environment.

Noun

endofauna (uncountable)

  1. Animals from outside of an organism's immediate environment.
    • We set out to study these ecosystems at methane seeps with the hypothesis that diverse epi- and endofauna may rely on AOM for substrate settlement, refuge and nutrition.2015 July 10, “Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of endofauna

From endo- + fauna.

Questions about endofauna

What does endofauna mean?
Endofauna means animals from outside of an organism's immediate environment.
What part of speech is endofauna?
Endofauna is a noun.

Words near endofauna in the dictionary

  1. Endoeuropean
  2. endoevaporite
  3. endoevaporites
  4. endoevaporitic
  5. endofacial
  6. endofauna
  7. endofaunal
  8. endoflagella
  9. endoflagellar
  10. endoflagellum
  11. endofullerene

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: endofauna (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “endofauna.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/endofauna. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.