Mediterranean 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 of the Mediterranean. 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 MB55 |
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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) | A5.23 | Infralittoral fine sand | overlap |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) | A5.24 | Infralittoral muddy sand | overlap |
History
Classification | Code | Habitat type name | Relationship type | Comment |
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EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A5.24 | Infralittoral muddy sand | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 | A5.23 | Infralittoral fine sand | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.25 | Infralittoral muddy sand | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.21 | Animal communities in fully marine shallow clean sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.23 | Communities of well sorted fine sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 | A4.22 | Communities of fine sands in very shallow waters | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.25 | Animal communities in fully marine shallow-water muddy sands | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.23 | Communities of well sorted fine sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.21 | Animal communities in fully marine shallow clean sands | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 | A4.22 | Communities of fine sands in very shallow waters | 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 | A4.22 | Biocenosis of fine sands in very shallow waters | narrower | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 | A4.26 | Animal communities in fully marine shallow-water muddy sands | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 | A4.21 | Animal communities in shallow infralittoral muddy sands | same | |
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 | A4.22 | Animal communities in shallow infralittoral muddy sands | same | |
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland) | IMS.FaMS | Shallow muddy sand faunal communities | same | |
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland) | IGS.FaS | Shallow sand faunal communities | wider | |
MNCR BioMar 96.7 (Britain & Ireland) | IMS.FaMS | same |