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Instructions · What links here · Epipsammic Species (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 37 hours ago by EmieWHall (talk: D · +) · Last edited 0 seconds ago

Epipsammic species are organisms that grow on or move through sand grains. The most common epipsammic species are algae < 20μm, such as diatoms, that attach to grains in sandy sediments of lakes and tidal flats. ^[1]

^ “Epipsammic Diatom Flora of the Pukchong-Namdaechon River of North Korea.” Algae 15, no. 4 (2000): 233–54.

[1] “Epipsammic Diatom Flora of the Pukchong-Namdaechon River of North Korea.” Algae 15, no. 4 (2000): 233–54.

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