Meaning of psammobiotic | Babel Free

Definitions

Living exclusively in sandy environments.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“The psammobiotic species are usually particularly small (mostly around 50 μm), and the shell is often flattened.”

“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.”

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