psammon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsæmən/
Etymology
From psammo- + -on, to be analogous to plankton.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.
Rotifers also are present in the psammon, the sandy habitat along the wet reaches of shorelines.
2014, James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers, Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology:
Deriveds
mesopsammon · endopsammon · epipsammon