Biodiversity & Conservation

Basic Information

Biotope classification

Ecology

Habitat preferences and distribution

Species composition

Sensitivity

Importance

Sea pens and burrowing megafauna in circalittoral soft mud

SS.CMU._.SpMeg

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SS.CMU._.SpMeg recorded () and expected () distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

UK and Ireland classification

Major habitat	SS	Sublittoral sediments
Habitat complex	SS.CMU	Circalittoral muds
Biotope complex	SS.CMU._
Biotope	SS.CMU._.SpMeg	Seapens and burrowing megafauna in circalittoral soft mud

Additional information

European Union Nature Information System (EUNIS) Habitat classification code: A4.8/B-CMU.SpMeg Seapens and burrowing megafauna of circalittoral muds (Davies & Moss, 1998).

This review can be cited as follows:

Hill, J.M. 2004. Sea pens and burrowing megafauna in circalittoral soft mud. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 18/06/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatclassification.php?habitatid=131&code=1997>

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