Atlantic infralittoral coarse sediment
Description (English)
Moderately exposed habitats with coarse sand, gravelly sand, shingle and gravel in the infralittoral, are subject to disturbance by tidal steams and wave action. Such habitats found on the open coast or in tide-swept marine inlets are characterised by a robust fauna of infaunal polychaetes such as Chaetozone setosa and Lanice conchilega , cumacean crustacea such as Iphinoe trispinosa and Diastylis bradyi , and venerid bivalves. Habitats with the lancelet Branchiostoma lanceolatum may also occur.
Source: EUNIS habitat classification
Quick facts
EUNIS habitat type | code MB32 |
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Relation to | Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites) |
Legal status
Relation to other habitat types mentioned in legal instruments
Vegetation types
Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)
Not availableSpecies mentioned in habitat description
Other classifications
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | A5.13 | Infralittoral coarse sediment | narrower |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | A5.1 | Sublittoral coarse sediment | narrower |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | A5.5 | Sublittoral macrophyte-dominated sediment | overlap |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | A5 | Sublittoral sediment | narrower |
History
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type | Comment |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A5.12 | Infralittoral coarse sediment | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A5.1 | Sublittoral coarse sediment | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A5.5 | Sublittoral macrophyte-dominated sediment | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A5 | Sublittoral sediment | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.12 | Animal communities in shallow-water coarse sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.11 | Animal communities in shallow-water gravels | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.71 | Animal communities of deep circalittoral gravel bottoms | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.73 | Animal communities of deep circalittoral shell gravel bottoms | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.554 | Baltic level gravel bottoms of the infralittoral photic zone dominated by macrophyte vegetation | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.555 | Baltic level sandy bottoms of the infralittoral photic zone dominated by macrophyte vegetation | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.557 | Baltic mixed sediments of the infralittoral photic zone dominated by macrophyte vegetation | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.556 | Baltic muds of the infralittoral photic zone dominated by macrophyte vegetation | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.1 | Sublittoral coarse sediment | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.5 | Sublittoral macrophyte-dominated sediment | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4 | Sublittoral sediment | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.12 | Animal communities in shallow-water coarse sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.11 | Animal communities in shallow-water gravels | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.71 | Animal communities of deep circalittoral gravel bottoms | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.73 | Animal communities of deep circalittoral shell gravel bottoms | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.5 | Shallow sublittoral sediments dominated by angiosperms | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.1 | Sublittoral mobile cobbles, gravels and coarse sands | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4 | Sublittoral sediments | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A4.13 | Animal communities in shallow-water coarse sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A4.12 | Animal communities in shallow-water gravels | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A4.5 | Shallow-water sediments dominated by angiosperms (other than Posidonia) | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A4.1 | Sublittoral mobile cobbles, gravels and coarse sands | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A4 | Sublittoral sediments | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | A4.12 | Animal communities in shallow gravels | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | A4.13 | Animal communities in shallow sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | A4.5 | Infralittoral sediments dominated by macrophytes | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | A4 | Sublittoral sediments | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 | A4.12 | Animal communities in shallow gravels and sands | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 | X16 | Sublittoral sediments | same | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 | 11.23 | Sublittoral pebbly seabeds | narrower | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 | 11.22 | Sublittoral soft seabeds | narrower | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 | 11.23 | Sublittoral pebbly seabeds | narrower | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 | 11.22 | Sublittoral soft seabeds | narrower | |
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 | 11.22 | narrower | ||
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 | 11.23 | narrower | ||
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 | 11.22 | narrower | ||
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 | 11.23 | narrower | ||
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 | 11.22 | narrower | ||
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 | 11.23 | narrower | ||
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland) | IGS.FaG | Shallow gravel faunal communities | narrower | |
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland) | IGS.FaS | Shallow sand faunal communities | narrower | |
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland) | SS | Sublittoral sediments | same | |
MNCR BioMar 96.7 (Britain & Ireland) | IGS.FaGS | same |