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Mediterranean infralittoral biogenic habitat

Description (English)

Habitats formed by living organisms (eg calcareous algae, mussels, coralligenous bioconcretions, worm reefs) in the infralittoral zone of the Mediterranean

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code MB25
Relation to	Annex I habitat types (EU Habitats Directive)

Legal status

Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments

Legal text	Annex	Name in legal text	Code in legal text	Habitat type relationship	More information
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	* Posidonia beds (Posidonion oceanicae)	1120	Wider	http://ec.europa.eu/environm...rective/index_en.htm
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Estuaries	1130	Overlap
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Large shallow inlets and bays	1160	Overlap
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Reefs	1170	Narrower

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Not available

Species mentioned in habitat description

Not available

Other classifications

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.6	Sublittoral biogenic reefs	overlap
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.535	Posidonia beds	overlap
European Red List of Habitats	MEDA5.6v	Mediterranean infralittoral mussel beds	wider
European Red List of Habitats	MEDA5.6x	Infralittoral biogenic habitats in the Mediterranean - corralligenous bioconcretions	wider
European Red List of Habitats	MEDA5.6w	Mediterranean infralittoral oyster beds	wider

For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.6	Sublittoral biogenic reefs	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.535	Posidonia beds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.561	Association with Posidonia oceanica	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.6	Sublittoral biogenic structures	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.6	Biogenic structures over sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.56	Posidonia beds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.48	Biogenic beds on sublittoral mixed sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.6	Posidonia beds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A4.55	Posidonia beds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	A5.32	Sheltered horse mussel Modiolus beds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	A5.35	Posidonia beds	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	11.34	Posidonia beds	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	11.34	Posidonia beds	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996	11.34		same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993	11.34		same
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	11.34		same
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1989	11.34		same
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	SCR.Mod	Sheltered Modiolus (horse mussel) beds	same
MNCR BioMar 96.7 (Britain & Ireland)	SCR.Mod		same

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