psammoxenic

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English

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Etymology

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From psammo- +‎ xeno- +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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psammoxenic (not comparable)

  1. Unable to survive in sandy environments.
    • 1948, Joe Kendall Neel, A Limnological Investigation of the Psammon in Douglas Lake:
      This system of classification has merit, since it is desirable to be able to indicate variation in tolerance to conditions of the psammon; but, since Varga (1938) classed as psammoxenic certain species that were placed in the psammobiotic group by Wiszniewski, there appears to be some question of the validity of all three groups.
    • 1990, Stygologia - Volumes 5-6, page 50:
      It is remarkable that all testate amoebas belonging to the psammoxenic category are reported by Decloitre along the French coast of the department of Var.
    • 1999, Elizabeth Wurdak, R. Wallace, Hendrik Segers, Rotifera VIII: A Comparative Approach, page 64:
      Probably the most common Dicranophorus. previous findings in limnosaprobic environments of fresh and brackish waters, but also recorded as psammoxenic species from the hygropsammon of lakes; cosmopolite
    • 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.
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