Term: cryptogenic
Literally
meaning: “hidden origin”
Origin: Anc Greek
κρύπτω/crypto(=hide, cover)
+γεννώ/geno(= “produce”, “give birth to”, “create”) >γένεσις/genesis(=origin)
Coined/History
The term “cryptogenic species” coined by Jim Carlton
in 1996 and it refers to those species that cannot be demonstrably classified
as native or introduced in a particular region.
Carlton wrote that “species that are neither clearly native nor exotic”
Sourse
James T. Carlton “Biological Invasions and Cryptogenic
Species” Ecology, 77(6) 1653-1655
Definition
1. (ecology)
cryptogenic species is one which origin
is unknown
2. (medicine)
cryptogenic is a disease of unknown cause such as cryptogenic stroke in which
classic risk factors are usually absent.
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