Umit KebapXX wrote:
> I personally haven\'t seen any reference on dropping the terms.

* maybe this is a blowback, or sideswipe, or something, from the
mammalian physiologists' appropriation of the term "hibernation" for
what their beasts do for low-metabolism over-wintering. This led someone
to coin "brumation" for how reptiles and Amphibians spend the winter.
They didn't bother to coin a different term for the freezing-solid of
freeze-tolerant species. Has anyone heard "brumation" used for Molluscs?

I've hung around biochemists who work with aestivation of snails, and
they call it "aestivation."

fred.
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>
> Terminology is often analogous, eg despite male genitalia of crabs, snails and
> us are different, all are named same (see Limax corsicus and think again!).
> But when specialized the terminology becomes more separative. I guess the
> choice for refusal is due to morphological undistinctness of hibernation and
> aestivation, or not being similar to other animals. In that case maybe the
> term dormant (-cy) will come out.
>
> I think at least hibernation in snails deserve its name, being a biochemically
> complex process.
>
> Alıntı yapılıyor Andrew Grebneff <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>>> I was chatting about land snails recently with another collector and
>>> was informed that usage of the term \"aestivation\" is not longer
>>> acceptable in describing a terrestrial snail\'s resting state.
>>>
>>> Can someone clarify- is this true and, if so, what term is being
>>> used in its place?  (I\'m assuming that \"sleepy, quiet time\" is a
>>> little too informal of a description of this behavior).
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