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troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an
animal species, or po****tion of a species,
strictly bound to
underground habitats, such as caves. These...
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underground habitats.
Related terms are
subterranean fish,
troglomorphic fish,
troglobitic fish,
stygobitic fish,
phreatic fish, and
hypogean fish.[page needed]...
- polisorum, also
known as the
Christmas Island cave scorpion, is a
species of
troglobitic scorpion in the
Hormuridae family. It is
endemic to Australia’s Christmas...
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genus of
scorpions in the
Urodacidae family. Its sole
species is the
troglobitic Aops oncodactylus,
which is
endemic to Australia. It was
first described...
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terms hypogean and
hypogeic are used for
fossorial (burrowing) and
troglobitic (or stygobitic) cave-living organisms. The
opposite terms are epigean...
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Though the
family includes three genera of blind, subterranean, and
troglobitic catfishes, Trogloglanis, Satan, and Prietella, none of
these three genera...
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other being Paracharon from Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. J.
ipuanai is
troglobitic,
living only in
caves and
lacking eyes. Like Paracharon, the pedipalps...
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Cryptops speleorex is a
species of
troglobitic centipede in the
family Cryptopidae. It is
endemic to the
Movile Cave, Romania,
where it was discovered...
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Erpobdella mestrovi is a
species of
troglobitic leech found only in deep
caves in
Northern Velebit, part of the
Dinaric Alps of Croatia. The
leech was...
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those particular caves since ancient times though. For example,
modern troglobitic Onychophora had not been
occupying their current caves since the Carboniferous...
