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SS.SCS.OCS.GlapThyAmy Glycera lapidum, Thyasira spp. and Amythasides macroglossus in offshore gravelly sand
Published date 2015-03Offshore (deep) circalittoral habitats with coarse sands and gravel, stone or shell and occasionally a little silt (Glycera lapidum and Amythasides macroglossus with the bivalve Thyasira spp. (particu...
LS Littoral sediment
Published date 2015-03Littoral sediment includes habitats of shingle (mobile cobbles and pebbles), gravel, sand and mud or any combination of these which occur in the intertidal zone. Littoral sediment is defined further u...
LR.FLR.Lic Lichens or small green algae on supralittoral and littoral fringe rock
Published date 2015-03Lichen communities typically form a distinct zone or band in a 'splash' zone on most rocky shores. This splash zone occurs above the main intertidal zone (i.e. that subject to regular covering by the ...
CR.MCR.SfR.Hia Hiatella-bored vertical sublittoral limestone rock
Published date 2015-03Moderately exposed vertical and overhanging soft rock (typically chalk), subject to moderately strong to weak tidal streams, bored by the rock-boring mollusc Hiatella arctica. As with other biotopes i...
LR.LLR.FVS.Fcer Fucus ceranoides on reduced salinity eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Very sheltered to extremely sheltered bedrock and stable boulders in the eulittoral zone that are subject to reduced salinity and characterised by the wrack Fucus ceranoides. Species richness is typic...
LS.LSa.MuSa.CerPo Cerastoderma edule and polychaetes in littoral muddy sand
Published date 2015-03Extensive clean fine sand or muddy sand shores with abundant cockles Cerastoderma edule. The community consists of the polychaetes Eteone longa, Scoloplos armiger, Pygospio elegans, Spio filicornis an...
IR.MIR.KR.LhypTX.Ft Laminaria hyperborea forest and foliose red seaweeds on tide-swept upper infralittoral mixed substrata
Published date 2015-03Moderately wave-exposed to wave sheltered, tide-swept mixed substrata, with dense Laminaria hyperborea forest and sparser Saccharina latissima, characterised by an under-storey and stipe flora of foli...
SS.SCS.OCS Offshore circalittoral coarse sediment
Published date 2015-03Offshore (deep) circalittoral habitats with coarse sands and gravel or shell. This habitat may cover large areas of the offshore continental shelf although there is relatively little quantitative data...
IR.HIR.KFaR.LhypRVt Laminaria hyperborea and red seaweeds on exposed vertical rock
Published date 2015-03On exposed coasts with moderately strong to weak tidal currents generally at depths of 0-10m, vertical rock communities dominated by frequent Laminaria hyperborea and its commonly associated red seawe...
SS.SCS.ICS.SLan Dense Lanice conchilega and other polychaetes in tide-swept infralittoral sand and mixed gravelly sand
Published date 2015-03Dense beds of Lanice conchilega occur in coarse to medium fine gravelly sand in the shallow sublittoral, where there are strong tidal streams or wave action. Several other species of polychaete also o...