Biodiversity & Conservation

Basic Information

Biotope classification

Ecology

Habitat preferences and distribution

Species composition

Sensitivity

Importance

Beggiatoa spp. on anoxic sublittoral mud

SS.CMU._.Beg

Image Keith Hiscock - A mat of the filamentous bacterium Beggiatoa spp. Image width ca 10 cm.
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SS.CMU._.Beg 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._.Beg	Beggiatoa spp. on anoxic sublittoral mud

Additional information

European Union Nature Information System (EUNIS) habitat classification: A4.351/B-CMU.Beg - Bacterial mats on anoxic sublittoral mud (Davies & Moss, 1998).

This review can be cited as follows:

Hill, J.M. 2002. Beggiatoa spp. on anoxic sublittoral mud. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 18/05/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatclassification.php?habitatid=181&code=1997>

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