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Sublittoral biogenic reefs

English name: Sublittoral biogenic reefs

Description (English)

This habitat type includes polychaete reefs, bivalve reefs (e.g. mussel beds) and cold water coral reefs. These communities develop in a range of habitats from exposed open coasts to estuaries, marine inlets and deeper offshore habitats and may be found in a variety of sediment types and salinity regimes.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type	code A5.6
Bern Convention	Included in a Resolution 4 habitat type at a higher level (A5)
Relation to	Annex I habitat types (EU Habitats Directive)

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
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Estuaries	1130	Overlap	http://ec.europa.eu/environm...rective/index_en.htm
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Coastal lagoons	1150	Overlap
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Large shallow inlets and bays	1160	Overlap
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - consolidated version 01/01/2007	Annex I: natural habitat types of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation	Reefs	1170	Overlap

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
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 200112	11.25	Sublittoral organogenic concretions	narrower
CORINE Land Cover	5.2.3.	Sea and ocean	n/a
Marine Habitat Classification Britain/Ireland 0405	SS.SBR	Sublittoral biogenic reefs on sediment	narrower
Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Habitats (UK)	38	Modiolus modiolus beds	wider

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

History

Classification	Code	Habitat type name	Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410	A5.6	Sublittoral biogenic reefs	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A4.6	Sublittoral biogenic structures	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A4.6	Biogenic structures over sublittoral sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	narrower
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910	A4.48	Biogenic beds on sublittoral mixed sediments	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811	A3.72	Sheltered Modiolus beds	same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712	A5.32	Sheltered horse mussel Modiolus beds	same
MNCR BioMar 97.06 (Britain & Ireland)	SCR.Mod	Sheltered Modiolus (horse mussel) beds	same
MNCR BioMar 96.7 (Britain & Ireland)	SCR.Mod		same

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