psammon
noun/ˈsæmən/
Etymology From psammo- + -on, to be analogous to plankton.
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Biology, Ecology, Natural sciences 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:
- Derived terms
- endopsammon, epipsammon, mesopsammon
- Related terms
- psammobiotic, psammophilous