tipho-, tiph-, tiphi-, -tiph
(Greek: standing water, pool, pond, marsh, swamp)
Etymology from Composition of Scientific Words by Roland W. Brown; Smithsonian Institutions Press; Washington, D.C.; in "marsh" group; 1985; page 514.
Information for this tiphos unit were compiled from presentations in the following sources:
- The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of NATURAL HISTORY, by R. J. Lincoln and G. A. Boxshall; Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, England; 1990; page 383.
- Biology, Sixth Edition; Brooks/Cole, Thomson Learning; Printed in the U.S.A; 2002; page 1221.
- Reader's Digest, Joy of Nature; The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; Pleasantville, New York; 1977; page 182.
- The Dictionary of the Biological Sciences by Peter Gray; Reinhold Publishing Corporation; New York; 1967; page 534.