English Explanatory Dictionary

Gloger's rule

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A rule stating that, within a species of endotherms, more heavily pigmented forms tend to be found in more humid environments.

Word forms

Gloger's rule

Etymology

After the zoologist Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, who first remarked upon this phenomenon in 1833.

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