psammobiotic
English
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]psammobiotic (not comparable)
- Living exclusively in sandy environments.
- 1938, Robert William Pennak, The ecology of the psammolittoral organisms of some Wisconsin lakes, with special reference to the tardigrada, copepoda, and rotatoria:
- Thus, with the exception of the narrower beaches, and Michigan and Pallette, the psammobiotic rotifers were concentrated at the edge or beyond the area of saturation on the beaches.
- 2007, Victor Fet, Alexi Popov, Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria, →ISBN, page 558:
- A total of 47 interstitial testate amoebas have been recorded in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Of these, 32 are psammobiotic, 11 are psammophilic, and 4 are psammoxenic.
- 2008, Olav Giere, Meiobenthology: The Microscopic Motile Fauna of Aquatic Sediments, →ISBN:
- The psammobiotic species are usually particularly small (mostly around 50 μm), and the shell is often flattened.
- 2012, Koen Martens, Aquatic Biodiversity: A Celebratory Volume in Honour of Henri J. Dumont, →ISBN:
- The North American endemic Trichocerca are remarkable. This group contains nine species (13.4% of Trichocera; Table 3), all of which have been found on several occasions. Of these, only one is psammobiotic, thus inhabits a habitat that has only sporadically been investigated worldwide.