pelophilous
English
Etymology
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Adjective
pelophilous (comparative more pelophilous, superlative most pelophilous)
- (biology) Found in muddy environments; mud-dwelling.
- 1913, Gerald O. Case, The Use of Vegetation for Reclaiming Tidal Lands, page ii:
- The hallophitic communities are divided into those that are psammaphilous, pelophilous, and helophilous, according as the substratum consists respectively of sand, of mud, or of swamp.
- 2007, Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe, African Biodiversity, page 43:
- Pelophilous species burrow in sandy loam and clay soils, and display ecomorphological adaptations to assist with loosening these compacted substrata.
- 2012, Pilar Rodriguez, Piet F.M. Verdonschot, Aquatic Oligochaete Biology VIII, page 225:
- Thus, two major ecological groupings are evident: the pelophilous group preferring soft sediments with slow current (strongly dominated by L. hoffmeisteri), and the psammophilous group inhabiting harder sediments with faster current (P. barbatus and others).
- 2013, Norbert Wolnomiejski, Zbigniew Witek, The Szczecin Lagoon Ecosystem:
- Over the entrie 5-year period of the present study (1998-2002), the pelophilous macrofauna showed a moderate biomass, similar to that in 1975/76 and 1987-1992.