psammophilic
English
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[edit]psammophilic (comparative more psammophilic, superlative most psammophilic)
- Thriving in sandy environments but also found in other environments.
- 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.
- 2012, H.U. Thiele, Carabid Beetles in Their Environments, →ISBN:
- Krogerus had already recognized that the influence of sand on psammophilic species is partly direct and partly indirect.
- 2016, Rolf G. Beutel, Richard A.B. Leschen, Coleoptera, Beetles. Morphology and Systematics, →ISBN:
- Most psammophilic species have expanded tibiae that function as shovels when these beetles are burrowing.