hyperphoresy
English
Etymology
hyper- + phoresy
Noun
hyperphoresy (uncountable)
- (biology, entomology) The situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.
- 2011, L. T. Sabagh, R. J. P. Dias, C. W. Branco, C. F. D. Rocha, New records of phoresy and hyperphoresy among treefrogs, ostracods, and ciliates in bromeliad of Atlantic forest, in Biodivers. Conserv. 20, 1837–1841
- 2014, David Penney, James E Jepson, Fossil Insects: An introduction to palaeoentomology →ISBN, page 168:
- Hyperphoresy, when one organism is being transported by another that is also in the process of being transported, is extremely rare in the fossil record but does occur (Fig. 203).