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фитофил
English-Russian dictionary of geology. 2011.
English-Russian dictionary of geology. 2011.
phytophil — 1) a reproductive guild (q.v.) of an obligatory plant spawner characterised by an adhesive egg envelope sticking to submerged plants (both live and dead), by late hatching, cement glands, by not being phototactic, and by having very well… … Dictionary of ichthyology
reproductive guild — a group of unrelated fishes with a similar form of reproduction, e.g. on substrates such as rocks and gravel (lithophil), in open water (pelagophil), on plants both living and dead (phytophil), on sand (psammophil), in holes and crevices… … Dictionary of ichthyology