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stenoendemic

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English

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Etymology

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From steno- +‎ endemic.

Adjective

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stenoendemic (not comparable)

  1. Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
    • 2021, Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation (Advances in Crustacean Research; 22), CRC Press, page 51:
      Three stenoendemic species are considered vulnerable (VU): Paramysis kosswigi from Lake Işikli in Turkey and several springs; Paramysis lacustris turcica endemic of Lake Beyşehir in Turkey and D. hebraica, found only in three costal stream in Israel.
    • 2020 April 20, Doru Bănăduc, Angela Curtean-Bănăduc, Franco Pedrotti, Kevin Cianfaglione, John R. Akeroyd, Human Impact on Danube Watershed Biodiversity in the XXI Century, Springer Nature, page 156:
      The subterranean habitats of the Dobra Rivers are also home to the Ogulin cave planarian (Dendrocoelum subterraneum Komárek, 1919), a Critically Endangered (CR) stenoendemic species that has only been recorded in the Ðula Sink-Medvedica cave system.

Usage notes

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This is the traditional meaning of endemic. As endemic came to be used to describe things that are native to larger areas, stenoendemic was coined.

Noun

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stenoendemic (plural stenoendemics)

  1. An individual or species that is stenoendemic to a region.
    • 2021, Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation (Advances in Crustacean Research; 22), CRC Press, page 51:
      Two stenoendimics with stable populations, Trogolomysis vjetrenidensis from Vjetrencia cave in Bosnia and Herzogovinia (ca 7 km long), and D. lacustris from Lake Scutari (370 km2), on the border between Montenegro and Albania, are endangered by habitat disturbance.