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Infralittoral sand

Description (English)

Clean medium to fine sands or non-cohesive slightly muddy sands on open coasts, offshore or in estuaries and marine inlets. Such habitats are often subject to a degree of wave action or tidal currents which restrict the silt and clay content to less than 15%. This habitat is characterised by a range of taxa including polychaetes, bivalve molluscs and amphipod crustacea.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code MB5
Relation to	Resolution 4 habitat type (used for designation of Emerald sites)

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
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats	Revised Annex I of Resolution 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention on endangered natural habitats types using the EUNIS habitat classification (year of revision 2010)	Sublittoral sediment	A5	Wider	https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc....ckColorLogged=FDC864 Resolution No. 4 (1996) of the Bern Convention lists endangered natural habitats requiring specific conservation measures [and the designation of Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCIs) forming the Emerald network]

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)	A5.2	Sublittoral sand	wider
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.24	Infralittoral muddy sand	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5	Sublittoral sediment	wider
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.23	Infralittoral fine sand	narrower

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

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.24	Infralittoral muddy sand	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5	Sublittoral sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.23	Infralittoral fine sand	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.2	Sublittoral sand	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4	Sublittoral sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.23	Communities of well sorted fine sands	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.21	Animal communities in fully marine shallow clean sands	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.2	Sublittoral sand	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.22	Communities of fine sands in very shallow waters	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.25	Infralittoral muddy sand	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.72	Animal communities of deep circalittoral sandy bottoms	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.2	Sublittoral sands and muddy sands	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.72	Animal communities of deep circalittoral sandy bottoms	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.23	Communities of well sorted fine sands	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.25	Animal communities in fully marine shallow-water muddy sands	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.22	Communities of fine sands in very shallow waters	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.21	Animal communities in fully marine shallow clean sands	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.23	Biocenosis of well sorted fine sands	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.21	Animal communities in fully marine shallow clean sands	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.22	Biocenosis of fine sands in very shallow waters	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.2	Sublittoral sands and muddy sands	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.26	Animal communities in fully marine shallow-water muddy sands	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A4.21	Animal communities in shallow infralittoral muddy sands	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	X16	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	A4.22	Animal communities in shallow infralittoral muddy sands	same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	11.22	Sublittoral soft seabeds	narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905	11.23	Sublittoral pebbly seabeds	narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	11.22	Sublittoral soft seabeds	narrower
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997	11.23	Sublittoral pebbly 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	11.23		narrower
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991	11.22		narrower
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	SS	Sublittoral sediments	same
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	IGS.FaS	Shallow sand faunal communities	wider
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	IMS.FaMS	Shallow muddy sand faunal communities	same
MNCR BioMar 96.7 (Britain & Ireland)	IMS.FaMS		same

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