sympatric

Term: sympatric

Origin: Anc Greek

συν/syn(=together, with)

πατρίς/patris(=fatherland)

πατήρ/pater(=father)

Coined:

By British evolutionary biologist and entomologist  Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, (1856 –1943) .

Definition

(ecology) Sympatric concerns species  occupying the same geographic areas without interbreeding.