What animal is an ectotherm?

Question

I just learned the term today and i believe the definition of it is an animal who's body's temperature depends on its habitats climate. What animals are like this?

Answer 1

Amphibians, reptiles, fish, and most invertabrates. Here's a good site for more info:

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/biog105/pages/demos/105/unit3/bodytempregulation.html

Answer 2

Ectotherm means the same thing as poikilotherm: an organism (as a frog) with a variable body temperature that tends to fluctuate with and is similar to or slightly higher than the temperature of its environment : a cold-blooded organism.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/poikilotherm

Fish, frogs, amphibians and reptiles.

I have worked with fish most my professional career. I never call a fish cold blooded. A fish body temperature is very close to the water it is in. So in winter it is cold, but in summer it is hot. I just usually say ectotherm when talking about fish body temperature.

Answer 3

ecto: Greek for outside of, endo: inside of. Therm = heat. So ectotherms derive their heat from outside themselves; essentailly everything that's not a mammal. reptiles for example crawl out into the sun till they heat up and if they get too hot they crawl into the shade.

Answer 4

Have you seen the "soap free" hand washing liquid like Purell? Cover yourself with it and light a match, you will learn the true meaning in this manner.

Answer 5

This refers to creatures that control body temperature through external means

Answer 6

Worms, slugs and snails, sea hares, frogs, salamanders, nematodes, fishes, octopuses, crawdads, toads, snakes, flies, salmon, centipedes, lizards, turtles, scorpions, spiders, piranhas, sharks, carp, starfish, iguanas, beetles, sea anemones, and many more.

Answer 7

lizards, alligators
mostly coldblooded animals