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stygobiotic

stygobiotic is the alternative form of stygobitic.

Meaning of stygobitic

Adjective

stygobitic (not comparable)

  1. Living exclusively in groundwater, such as aquifers or caves.
    • We discuss the possibility that one stygobitic lineage secondarily regained some of its body pigmentation as adaptation to increased photic conditions after cave collapse and forming of cenotes during the last glacial maximum.2015 August 27, “The Evolution of Epigean and Stygobitic Species of Koonunga Sayce, 1907 (Syncarida: Anaspidacea) in Southern Australia, with the Description of Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of stygobiotic

From stygo- + -biotic.

Questions about stygobiotic

What is stygobiotic the alternative form of?
Stygobiotic is the alternative form of stygobitic.

Words near stygobiotic in the dictionary

  1. stygmergic
  2. stygo-
  3. stygobiont
  4. stygobiontic
  5. stygobionts
  6. stygobiotic
  7. stygobite
  8. stygobites
  9. stygobitic
  10. stygofauna
  11. stygofaunal

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