deserticole
noun1
A desert-dweller; one who is deserticolous.
- […] "deserticoles", by virtue of retaining their rainforest life style and repertoire of adaptations (transmuted as "fortuitous adaptations") are masquerading as "deserticoles".1997, B. Y. Main, Tropical rainforest mygalomorph spiders in the Australian desert: the irony of an adaptive legacy, in Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria
- Deserticole, inhabits mesic situations with sparse vegetation. […]2002, Muhammad Sharif Khan, A Guide to the Snakes of Pakistan:
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- […] arboricoles (= dendrobionts), symbionts of ants or termites, deserticoles etc. are habitually even less conspicuous, […] in Israel and the West Bank) are deserticoles.2009, S. I. Golovatch, R. D. Kime, “Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review”, in Soil organisms:
- […] the most characteristic deserticole among millipedes is Orthoporus ornatus (Spirostreptida) in the southern US and adjacent parts of Mexico. Both these species are rare except in their native environments (Golovatch and Kime, 2009).2013 February 5, Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 430: