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What is an inquiline?

What is an inquiline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
  2. (biology) An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.
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Consequently, there is no need to invoke allopatric conditions to explain the patterns of variation seen in both the gall inducer and its inquiline beetle.
Notes on the life history, parasites and inquiline associates of Anthophora abrupta Say, and some comparisons with the habits of certain other Anthophorinae.
The colonies of Bombus illustrate the rise of the inquiline habit.
Inquiline queens must gain access to the host colony, coexist with its queen and workers, and then lay eggs that are reared as sexuals by the host workers.
A reproductive female inquiline gains access to a host nest and usually kills the resident queen.
Several species of warm water hydrozoan cnidarians inhabit body folds of bivalve molluscs as inquiline symbiotes.

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