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Fauna vs Stygofauna - What's the difference?

fauna | stygofauna |

As nouns the difference between fauna and stygofauna

is that fauna is animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc while stygofauna is any fauna that live within groundwater systems, such as caves and aquifers, particularly the small, aquatic groundwater invertebrates.

As a proper noun Fauna

is the goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of Faunus.

fauna

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  • (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

    • Derived terms

    * aquafauna * epifauna * faunal * infauna * macrofauna * megafauna * meiofauna * mesofauna * microfauna

    Coordinate terms

    * flora

    stygofauna

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun) (wikipedia stygofauna)
  • (zoology) Any fauna that live within groundwater systems, such as caves and aquifers, particularly the small, aquatic groundwater invertebrates.