Definitionadj. (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging
Last update: September 18, 2015
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There may be said to be three or four different modes of life in these larvae: some are fossorial, and form tubes in the mud or clay in which they live; others are found on or beneath stones; while others again swim and crawl freely among water plants. [Please select]
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Fossorial: formed for or with the habit of digging or burrowing. [Please select]
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Sub-fossorial: legs used in digging: yet not greatly modified. [Please select]
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Vexhillum: in Hymenoptera, an expansion on the tip of tarsi of certain fossorial groups. [Please select]
Ecologically the fauna is divided into five major habitats--aquatic, aquatic margin, fossorial, terrestrial, and arboreal. [Please select]
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Beginning with the rainforest, we find only one fossorial species, _Gymnopis mexicanus_. [Please select]
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In the semi-arid scrub forest the same fossorial species as exist in the savannas are found. [Please select]
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6) tends to strengthen the nasal region; this anterior strengthening may be a reflection of the fossorial habits of these snakes. [Please select]
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He goes on to add: "The anterior limbs are decidedly fossorial, and the hinder suited for walking in a sub-plantigrade manner; both wholly unfitted for rapatory or scansorial purposes." [Please select]
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