Crypsis has two distinct meanings in biology:
- organisms that hide themselves: crypsis
- organisms that are difficult to distinguish: crypsis (taxonomy)
See also
Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles In Ecology, crypsis is the ability of an organism to avoid observation In Biology, a cryptic species complex is a group of Species which satisfy the biological definition of species that is they are reproductively isolated from each Cryptozoology (from Greek κρυπτός kruptos, "hidden" + Zoology; literally "study of hidden animals" is the study of and search
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