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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]endofauna (uncountable)
- (biology) animals from outside of an organism's immediate environment.
- 2015 July 10, “Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
- We set out to study these ecosystems at methane seeps with the hypothesis that diverse epi- and endofauna may rely on AOM for substrate settlement, refuge and nutrition.
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