circatidal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]circa (“approximately”) + tidal; modelled on circadian.
Adjective
[edit]circatidal (not comparable)
- (of a biorhythm) Approximately in time with the tides.
- 2014, Tadashi Akiyama, “Chapter 4: Circatidal and Circadian Rhythms in Crustacean Swimming Behavior”, in Hideharu Numata, Barbara Helm, editors, Annual, Lunar, and Tidal Clocks, Springer, page 65:
- In the laboratory, the animals show a circatidal swimming rhythm, entrained by hydrostatic pressure stimulus.
- 2015, S. Y. Lee, “Chapter 71-9: Ecology of Brachyura”, in Peter Castro, Peter Davie, Danièle Guinot, Frederick Schram, Carel von Vaupel Klein, editors, Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology: The Crustacea, Volume 9, Part C-1, BRILL, page 476:
- […] green shore crab Carcinus maenas lay the foundation on the circatidal rhythmicity of coastal crabs and how such behaviour may be underpinned by internal physiological and neurological mechanisms.
- 2020, Rickey Cothran, Martin Thiel, editors, Reproductive Biology: The Natural History of the Crustacea, Volume 6, Oxford University Press, unnumbered page:
- For example, three different hypotheses have been put forward to explain circatidal and circadian rhythms in crustaceans (Palmer 1990, 1995).
Related terms
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Biological rhythm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Chronometer § Biochronometry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
