Meanings
plural ephemeropterans
- biologyAny insect of the order Ephemeroptera, the mayflies.
All these habitats are species poor: aside from amphipod fauna, assellote isopods, trichopteran, plecopteran and ephemeropteran larvae, erpobdelid leeches and salamander larvae were also found, but no fishes were observed.
2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From translingual Ephemeroptera + -an.
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