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A troglobite is an animal that lives entirely in the dark parts of caves. They can roughly be divided into troglofauna for the land-dwelling species and stygofauna for species found in water. Troglobites are typically identified by evolutionary traits that suit them for cave life such as loss of sight and skin pigment or slow metabolism. They are typically incapable of surviving outside of caves and as such are often endemic to a single cave or system of caves. Creatures such as cave-dwelling bats or cave swallows are not considered troglobites because they leave caves in order to acquire food. These are trogloxene. ==Mollusca== *Tumbling Creek cavesnail (''Antrobia culveri'') *Cave physa (''Physella spelunca'') *Phantom cave snail (''Cochliopa texana'') *Mimic cavesnail (''Phreatodrobia imitata'') * ''Zospeum'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of troglobites」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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