Meaning of nepenthebiont | Babel Free

Definitions

Any animal that lives in, and is dependent on, the pitcher of a Nepenthes pitcher plant.

Examples

“Nepenthebiont animals are characteristic of the pitchers and their aquatic stages are not known to occur in other habitats.”

“Nepenthebiont species normally live only in pithers^([sic]) and these account for 66% of the pitcher fauna found in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.”

“Meanwhile, communities of specialised pitcher-dwellers (so-called nepenthebionts) set up in the water volume to take advantage of the food provided by the decaying mass of insect remains at the bottom.”

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