stenoendemic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]stenoendemic (not comparable)
- 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
[edit]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
[edit]stenoendemic (plural stenoendemics)
- 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.