Stenothermic Adj. refers to a type of stenotherm; a species or living organism only capable of living or surviving within a narrow temperature range. See also Ecotope

Ecotope

Ecotopes are the smallest ecologically-distinct landscape features in a landscape mapping and classification system. As such, they represent relatively homogeneous, spatially-explicit landscape functional units that are useful for stratifying landscapes into ecologically distinct features for the...

. Cf. Eurytherm

Eurytherm

A eurytherm is an organism that can function at a wide range of different body temperatures.For example, a goldfish can function with a body temperature ranging from 5 to 30 degrees C. They are contrasting to stenothermic organisms....

.

Chionoecetes opilio is a stenothermic organism, and temperature affects its biology throughout its life history, from embryo to adult. Small changes in temperature (< 2 °C) can increase the duration of egg incubation for C. opilio by a full year (Moriyasu and Lanteigne, 1998 M. Moriyasu and C. Lanteigne, Embryo development and reproductive cycle in the snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio (Crustacea: Majidae).