Psammon

Origin

- + psammo + -, to be analogous to plankton.

Full definition of psammon

Noun

1. (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.

Derived terms

• endopsammon
• epipsammon
• mesopsammon

Related terms

• psammobiotic
• psammophilous