ostracophil
English translation: shell-dwelling // the shell-dwelling lifestyle / habit
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peer agreement (net): +1shell-dwelling // the shell-dwelling lifestyle / habit Explanation: Ostracophil (literally "shell-lover") is already very rare in English. It is nearly always applied to fish, and means living in shells. You normally refer to "shell-dwelling" fish, especially cichlids, rather than ostraphils. But as far as I can tell no noun derived from it, such as "ostraphily" or "ostraphilia", exists in English. If you want to refer to the phenomenon of being an "ostracophil", you have to say "shell dwelling", and people also refer to "the shell-dwelling habit" or "the shell-dwelling lifestyle": The (inevitable) Wikipedia page mentioning the word "ostracophil": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_dwellers Some other references: "We examined shelter availability and sediment granulometry as factors to explain the distribution of shell-dwelling and/or tube-dwelling" http://www.researchgate.net/publication/245031844_Limiting_f... "Its minute size is an adaptation to a shell-dwelling lifestyle." http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/cichlid/tang.php "In other words, the shell-dwelling habit is perhaps rather young geologically." https://books.google.es/books?id=M3pCQ6ks5PEC&pg=PA251&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 hrs (2015-09-02 12:14:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I've unfortunately been misspelling this word as ostraphil in my answer. I meant "ostracophily" or "ostracophilia", not "ostraphily" or "ostaphilia". Glad to help! |
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| Reference: Refs. Reference information: I believe you can use "ostracophils" (noun), "ostracophilic" is the adjective http://technical_en_de.deacademic.com/11029/bare_shell Shell dwellers — The terms shell dwellers or shelldwellers, shell breeding, or ostracophil are descriptive terms for cichlid fish that use the empty shells of aquatic snails as sites for breeding and shelter. The terms have no taxonomic basis, although most shell … Wikipedia http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1019948/Shell_dwellers The terms shell dwellers or shelldwellers, shell-breeding, or ostracophil are descriptive terms for cichlid fish that use the empty shells of aquatic snails as sites for breeding and shelter. The terms have no taxonomic basis, although most shell-dwelling cichlids are from Lake Tanganyikas lamprologine lineage.Loiselle PV. (1994) The Cichlid Aquarium, Voyageur Press, ISBN 1-56465-146-0] Many shell dwelling cichlids are popular with fishkeepings and are frequently kept in aquaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_dwellers immediate response required - Winemiller Aquatic Ecology ... aquaticecology.tamu.edu/files/2012/07/Welcomme-et-al-RRA05.pdf by RL WELCOMME - 2005 - Cited by 109 - Related articles Spawners on invertebrates (ostracophils). 2. Annual fishes (xerophils). 6 ...... ostracophilic species (Rhodeus sericeus (Pallas)). Species in this guild tend to ... Download PDF - Springer link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-8213-9_15.pdf ... Ar = Ariadnophils (preference for enclosed nesting habitats), ***Os = Ostracophils*** (preference ..... There is only one **ostracophilic*** spawner, bitterling, which needs. http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/en_ichthyology/14304/reproduct... Nonguarders produce eggs which are scattered into the water (reproductive guilds pelagophils, lithopelagophils, lithophils, phytolithophils, phytophils, psammophils and aerophils, all q.v.) or egg broods which are hidden (reproductive guilds aeropsammophils, speleophils, lithophils, ***ostracophils*** and xerophils, all q.v.). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2015-09-01 14:41:30 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.academia.edu/13554588/Lutaenko_K.A._The_Holocene... **Ostracophiles** in the Tumen River have been presented only by – Rhodeus sericeus (Kim et al., 1990). For the past few years two more species of bitterlings – A. asmussi и A. chankaensis – have been registered here (Oxiuzian, Sokolovsky, 2002). |
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