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Vassil G. Golemansky; [Adaptations morphologiques des thecamoebiens psammobiontes du psammal supralittoral des mers]. Acta Protozoologica 17(1):141-152, 1978
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The specific living conditions in the inhabited by relatively rich associations of psammobiont and psammophylous testate amoebas supralittoral psammal of seas are briefly reviewed. The more important morphological adaptations of the psammobiont testate amoebas to the specific environment are as follows: Relatively smaller shells of psammobiont testate amoebas compared with fresh water species; Lateral or dorso-ventral flattened shells; Light, chitinoid shells; Side processes of shells on some obligatory psammobiont; Long and fine filopods, penetrating among the sand particles; Infundibular extension of shells around the pseudostome with mainly fixing functions.