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What does amphibiotic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Describing insects that initially live in water but live on land as adults
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Migrations and the related amphibiotic nature of migrating species are the most important features of phylogenetic adaptation in certain species of fishes and Agnatha.
A model is proposed which postulates that insect metamorphosis is an effect of adaptations to differing sets of environmental selective pressures during ancestral amphibiotic life.
In the alternative 'gill theory' wings are homologous with the 'gills' of mayfly larvae, implying that the first pterygotes were amphibiotic and that their ancestors were aquatic.
It is a very common species living in various land habitats but is amphibiotic too which is the unanimous opinion of many authors.
The amphibiotic migration of these mature adults is very short-lived, but if we consider the whole life cycle of the species, the use of this term is justified.

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