Cold-blooded animals
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Cold-blooded animals
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103909
- info:lc/authorities/sh85103909
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85103909#concept
Instance Of
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Variants
- Ectothermic animals
- Ectotherms
- Heterotherms
- Poecilotherms
- Poikilothermic animals
- Poikilotherms
Broader Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Poikilotherms
Sources
- found: Lesel, R. Microbiology in poecilotherms ... 1990.
- found: Acad. Am. encyc.: v. 3, p. 357 (the so-called cold-blooded animals - the temperature conformers, or poikilotherms - lack effective temperature regulation)
- found: Random House (cold blooded: adj. designating or pertaining to animals, as fishes and reptiles, whose blood temperature ranges from the freezing point upward, in accordance with the temperature of the surrounding medium; poikilothermal)
- found: Chambers biol. dict. (cold-blooded: having a bodily temperature which is dependent on the environmental temperature; poikilothermal)
- found: Britannica Micro.: v. 3, p. 443 (cold-bloodedness, also called poikilothermy, ectothermy or heterothermy, cold-blooded animals, poikilothermus)
- found: Ultsch, G.R. pH and temperature in ectothermic vertebrate, c1996.
- found: Effects of temperature on ectothermic organisms, 1973.
- found: Viral diseases of poikilothermic vertebrates, 1965.
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2009-11-12: revised
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