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IR.MIR.KR.HiaSw Hiatella arctica and seaweeds on vertical limestone / chalk.
Published date 2015-03This biotope is found in the infralittoral zone on moderately exposed vertical limestone/chalk surfaces in weak tidal streams, and has been recorded most frequently between 0-10m. This biotope is char...
SS.SSa.OSa.MalEdef Maldanid polychaetes and Eudorellopsis deformis in offshore circalittoral sand or muddy sand
Published date 2015-03In deep offshore sand or non-cohesive muddy sand dense populations of maldanid polychaetes such as Maldane sarsi and the cumacean Eudorellopsis deformis may be found. Accompanying these species are ab...
LS.LMx Littoral mixed sediment
Published date 2015-03Shores of mixed sediments ranging from muds with gravel and sand components to mixed sediments with pebbles, gravels, sands and mud in more even proportions. By definition, mixed sediments are poorly ...
LR.LLR.FVS.Ascmac Ascophyllum nodosum ecad mackaii beds on extremely sheltered mid eulittoral mixed substrata
Published date 2015-03Extremely sheltered mid shore mixed substrata, usually subject to variable salinity due to freshwater runoff, which support beds of the non-attached growth form of the wrack Ascophyllum nodosum ecad m...
SS.SSa.SSaVS.MoSaVS Infralittoral mobile sand in variable salinity (estuaries)
Published date 2015-03Very mobile sand in areas of strong tidal currents and variable salinity. No stable community is able to develop within this extremely mobile and abrasive habitat. The fauna encountered in this habita...
LR.LLR.F.Asc Ascophyllum nodosum on very sheltered mid eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Sheltered to extremely sheltered mid eulittoral rock with the wrack Ascophyllum nodosum. The red seaweed Vertebrata lanosa is often found growing as an epiphyte on the A. nodosum fronds while disturbe...
IR.LIR.K.SLat.Pk Saccharina latissima park on very sheltered lower infralittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Silty bedrock or boulders with a Saccharina latissima park (often the cape-form). Beneath the canopy, the rock is covered by encrusting coralline algae, and the urchin Echinus esculentus is often pres...
IR.LIR.IFaVS.MytRS Mytilus edulis beds on reduced salinity infralittoral rock
Published date 2015-03This biotope occur in shallow, often tide-swept, reduced salinity conditions. Dense beds of the mussel Mytilus edulis with the occasional barnacle Balanus crenatus. A wide variety of epifaunal colonis...
IR.LIR.K.LhypSlat.Pk Mixed Laminaria hyperborea and Saccharina latissima park on sheltered lower infralittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Sheltered silted, bedrock and boulders with a park of mixed Laminaria hyperborea and Saccharina latissima. Both kelp species are sparse in the park (Frequent). Beneath the often 'cape-form' kelp canop...
LR.MLR.MusF.MytFR Mytilus edulis, Fucus serratus and red seaweeds on moderately exposed lower eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Lower eulittoral moderately exposed bedrock covered by a dense community of large individuals of the mussel Mytilus edulis, often with a scarce covering of the wrack Fucus serratus and red seaweeds. T...