psammon
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
psammo- + -on, to be analogous to plankton.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
psammon (uncountable)
- (ecology) The community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.
- 2014, James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers, Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology:
- Rotifers also are present in the psammon, the sandy habitat along the wet reaches of shorelines.