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psammobiotic

psammobiotic adjective: living exclusively in sandy environments.

Adjective

psammobiotic (not comparable)

  1. Living exclusively in sandy environments.
    • 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.1938, Robert William Pennak, The ecology of the psammolittoral organisms of some Wisconsin lakes, with special reference to the tardigrada, copepoda, and rotatoria
    • 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.2007, Victor Fet, Alexi Popov, Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria, →ISBN, page 558

Examples of psammobiotic in a sentence

  • The psammobiotic species are usually particularly small (mostly around 50 μm), and the shell is often flattened.2008, Olav Giere, Meiobenthology: The Microscopic Motile Fauna of Aquatic Sediments, →ISBN:
  • Of these, only one is psammobiotic, thus inhabits a habitat that has only sporadically been investigated worldwide.2012, Koen Martens, Aquatic Biodiversity: A Celebratory Volume in Honour of Henri J. Dumont, →ISBN:

Origin of psammobiotic

From psammo- + -biotic.

Questions about psammobiotic

What does psammobiotic mean?
Psammobiotic means living exclusively in sandy environments.
How do you use psammobiotic in a sentence?
The psammobiotic species are usually particularly small (mostly around 50 μm), and the shell is often flattened.
What part of speech is psammobiotic?
Psammobiotic is an adjective.

Words near psammobiotic in the dictionary

  1. psammites
  2. psammitic
  3. psammo-
  4. psammobiid
  5. psammobiids
  6. psammobiotic
  7. psammocharid
  8. psammocharids
  9. psammohalophyte
  10. psammohalophytes
  11. psammolittoral

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