Usually means: Microscopic organisms living in sand.
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  4. psammon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (psammon)

▸ noun:  (ecology) The community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.

Similar:
mesopsammon, meiofauna, samarid, land shrimp, panne, seasand, salt, sea primrose, sampire, amphipod, more...

Opposite:
pelagial, benthos, profundal

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Similar:
mesopsammon, meiofauna, samarid, land shrimp, panne, seasand, salt, sea primrose, sampire, amphipod, more...

Opposite:
pelagial, benthos, profundal



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