Talk:Sacoglossa

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Distribution

"They are mainly tropical species and eurythermic warm water". This sentence makes no sense : they are .... eurythermic warm water. I suppose the contributor meant that they live in warm waters. But eurythermic refers to an organism (and not to water) and means : tolerating or adaptable to a wide range of temperatures. I suppose the real meaning of this sentence is : "they are mainly tropical species, usually found in warm waters, but they are also adapted to a wide range of temperatures". JoJan (talk) 08:57, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adaptable to a wide range of temperatures. Used of an organism. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:59, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Meaningless sentence, and (using Wikiblame) it appears to have been added that way. But looking the attributed source makes it clear what was intended (we ought to mean the same thing as the source anyway):

"The decrease in number of species with latitude is spectacular, and the number of cold-water endemics is very low, indicating that sacoglossans in cold temperate regions are mostly eurythermic warm water/ tropical species." (Abstract)

Hope this helps, Shreevatsa (talk) 16:18, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried to rephrase the above extract from the abstract as follows :

"The sacoglossans are found mainly in tropical warm waters. But they are also adaptable to a wide range of temperatures, however with spectacularly decreasing numbers with latitude, resulting in very few cold-water endemic species."

I've avoided the word "eurythermic" as this is scientific jargon not understood by the general reader. JoJan (talk) 13:04, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]