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troglobite: a standalone construct

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troglobite1 CONSTRUCTTroglobiteSKET · CAVE-OBLIGATE

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Biospeleology

An animal that can live only in caves

A troglobite is an animal so specialised for subterranean life that it completes its whole life cycle underground and cannot survive in the outside world. Such species typically show the classic cave syndrome: loss of eyes and pigment, and compensating elongation of legs and antennae and heightened non-visual senses. They sit at one end of a long-used scheme that also names troglophiles, which can live in or out of caves, and trogloxenes, which only visit; Sket has argued over how precisely to draw those lines. Culver and Pipan give the standard treatment of these habitats and their fauna. The referent is an obligate cave-dwelling organism, defined by its dependence on the subterranean environment.[1][2]

Unit
A species classed by obligate dependence on subterranean habitat
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assigned from life-history and distribution evidence and troglomorphic traits such as eye and pigment reduction

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References

  1. Culver, D. C., & Pipan, T. (2009). The biology of caves and other subterranean habitats. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199219933
  2. Sket, B. (2008). Can we agree on an ecological classification of subterranean animals? Journal of Natural History, 42(21–22), 1549–1563. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930801995762

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