Able to live in waters with a wide variation in salinity.
Able to tolerate both fresh and salt water.
Organisms that tolerate a wide range of salinities.
Organisms able to tolerate a wide range of salinity.
able to live at a variety of salinities
Fish that live in a wide range of salinities.
tolerating a wide range of salinities; opposite of stenohaline.
An organism that is capable of living in a wide range of salinity concentrations.
Having a wide tolerance to salinity.
Euryhaline organisms are able to adapt to a wide range of salinities. An example of a euryhaline fish is the molly, Poecilia sp., which can live in fresh, brackish, or salt water. The European shore crab Carcinus maenas is an example of a euryhaline invertebrate that can live in salt and brackish water.