EUNIS habitat classification 2017 > M - Marine benthic habitats > MB6 - Infralittoral mud > MB65 - Mediterranean infralittoral mud > MB652 - Assemblages of the euryhaline and/or eurythermal lagoon biocenosis on mud

Assemblages of the euryhaline and/or eurythermal lagoon biocenosis on mud

Description (English)

Saline lagoons or occasionally in estuaries with muddy sediments where the salinity is variable over the short or long term (daily to annual). Characteristic species include Vascular plants (Ruppia cirrhosa, R. maritima, Stuckenia pectinata, Zostera marina, Z. noltei, Cymodocea nodosa); (Polychaete worms (Hediste diversicolor, Alitta succinea); Bivalves (Cerastoderma glaucum, Abra segmentum, Scrobicularia plana, Loripes orbiculatus, Gastrana fragilis, Tapes spp., Ostrea edulis); Gasteropods (Rissoa spp., Nassarius reticulatus, Cyclope neritea); Amphipods (Gammarus locusta, Microdeutopus sp.), Isopods (Lekanesphaera hookeri, Cyathura carinata, Idotea chelipes) and the shore crab Carcinus aestuarii.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code MB652
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)	Estuaries	1130	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]
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)	* Coastal lagoons	1150	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

Invertebrates Carcinus aestuarii

Invertebrates Cerastoderma glaucum

Invertebrates Cyathura carinata

Invertebrates Gammarus locusta

Invertebrates Idotea chelipes

Species scientific name	English common name	Species group
Carcinus aestuarii		Invertebrates
Cerastoderma glaucum		Invertebrates
Cyathura carinata		Invertebrates
Gammarus locusta		Invertebrates
Idotea chelipes		Invertebrates

Other classifications

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012)	A5.3	Sublittoral mud	narrower
European Red List of Habitats	MEDA5.32	Communities of Mediterranean sublittoral estuarine sediments	same

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

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.3	Sublittoral mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.3	Sublittoral mud	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.74	Animal communities of deep circalittoral muddy bottoms	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.3	Sublittoral muds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.74	Animal communities of deep circalittoral muddy bottoms	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.3	Sublittoral muds	same

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