pelophilous

comparative more pelophilous · superlative most pelophilous

1. biologyFound in muddy environments; mud-dwelling.

   Pelophilous species burrow in sandy loam and clay soils, and display ecomorphological adaptations to assist with loosening these compacted substrata.

   2007, Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe, African Biodiversity, page 43

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   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.

   1913, Gerald O. Case, The Use of Vegetation for Reclaiming Tidal Lands, page ii

   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).

   2012, Pilar Rodriguez, Piet F.M. Verdonschot, Aquatic Oligochaete Biology VIII, page 225

   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.

   2013, Norbert Wolnomiejski, Zbigniew Witek, The Szczecin Lagoon Ecosystem