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What does stenothermal mean?

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  1. (biology) Able to tolerate only a narrow range of temperatures
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Pseudocandona rostrata is a benthic cold stenothermal species documented from small lakes, springs and interstitial groundwater, and its adults dominate in the summer period.
Is the stenothermal nature of Antarctic marine species solely a result of adaptation to living in a cold constant environment for so long, or is it a trade-off effect of survival?
However, the thermal range over which ABT was modified was typically wider for more eurythermal species than for stenothermal species.
Aquaculture in Poland is based on breeding freshwater stenothermal or non-stenothermal fish in fish ponds located throughout the country.
There is also a group of distinctive foraminifera more or less confined to the zone of the Tethys and thought to be a stenothermal tropical group.
Eleven cetacean species have distributions peculiar to tropical or warm temperature waters and may be considered warm, stenothermal species, capable of living within a limited range of temperatures.

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