inquilinous

English

Adjective

inquilinous (not comparable)

  1. (biology) That lives in the dwelling place of another species
    • 2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0143921:
      Sponges influence macrofaunal community composition by providing habitat for inquilines (e.g., among the inquilinous amphipods, a diversity of sebids, stenothoids, thaumatelsonids, colomastigids and leucothoids were found with the sponges).
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