Biodiversity & Conservation

Basic Information

Biotope classification

Ecology

Habitat preferences and distribution

Species composition

Sensitivity

Importance

Hediste diversicolor and Macoma balthica in sandy mud shores

LS.LMU.SMu.HedMac

Image Roger Covey - Upper shore mud with Hediste holes and tracks. Image with ca XX cm.
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LS.LMU.SMu.HedMac recorded () and expected () distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

UK and Ireland classification

Major habitat	LS	Littoral sediments
Habitat complex	LS.LMU	Littoral muds
Biotope complex	LS.LMU.SMu
Biotope	LS.LMU.SMu.HedMac	Hediste diversicolor and Macoma balthica in sandy mud shores

Additional information

European Union Natural Information System (EUNIS) classification: A2.361/B-LMU.SMu.HedMac - Hediste diversicolor and Macoma balthica in sandy mud shores.

This review can be cited as follows:

Rayment, W.J. 2001. Hediste diversicolor and Macoma balthica in sandy mud shores. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 20/05/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatclassification.php?habitatid=209&code=1997>

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