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Arctic infralittoral mud

Description (English)

Sublittoral mud and cohesive sandy mud in the Arctic extending from the extreme lower shore to the lower limit of vascular plants. This biotope is predominantly found in sheltered harbours, sealochs, bays, marine inlets and estuaries and stable deeper/offshore areas where the reduced influence of wave action and/or tidal streams allow fine sediments to settle

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code MB61
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	Overlap	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)	A5.34	Infralittoral fine mud	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.33	Infralittoral sandy mud	overlap
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.5	Sublittoral macrophyte-dominated sediment	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.3	Sublittoral mud	overlap
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5	Sublittoral sediment	overlap

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

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.34	Infralittoral fine mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.33	Infralittoral sandy mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.5	Sublittoral macrophyte-dominated sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.3	Sublittoral mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5	Sublittoral sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.74	Animal communities of deep circalittoral muddy 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	A4.31	Shallow fully marine mud communities	wider
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.5	Sublittoral macrophyte-dominated sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.3	Sublittoral mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4	Sublittoral sediment	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.74	Animal communities of deep circalittoral muddy bottoms	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.31	Shallow fully marine mud communities	wider
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.5	Shallow sublittoral sediments dominated by angiosperms	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.3	Sublittoral muds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.31	Shallow marine mud communities	wider
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.5	Shallow-water sediments dominated by angiosperms (other than Posidonia)	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.3	Sublittoral muds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4	Sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A4.5	Infralittoral sediments dominated by macrophytes	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A4.31	Shallow marine mud communities	wider
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A4	Sublittoral sediments	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)	IMU.MarMu	Shallow marine mud communities	wider
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	SS	Sublittoral sediments	same

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