Biodiversity & Conservation

Basic Information

Biotope classification

Ecology

Habitat preferences and distribution

Species composition

Sensitivity

Importance

Halichondria bowerbanki, Eudendrium arbusculum and Eucratea loricata on reduced salinity tide-swept circalittoral mixed substrata

CR.MCR.CFaVS.HbowEud

<i>%Halichondria bowerbanki%</i>, <i>%Eudendrium arbusculum%</i> and <i>%Eucratea loricata%</i> on reduced salinity tide-swept circalittoral mixed substrata

CR.MCR.CFaVS.HbowEud recorded () and expected () distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

For a list of 2004 characterising species please see the JNCC website.

UK and Ireland classification

Major habitat	CR	Circalittoral rock (and other hard substrata)
Habitat complex	CR.MCR	Moderate energy circalittoral rock
Biotope complex	CR.MCR.CFaVS	Circalittoral faunal communities in variable salinity
Biotope	CR.MCR.CFaVS.HbowEud	Halichondria bowerbanki, Eudendrium arbusculum and Eucratea loricata on reduced salinity tide-swept circalittoral mixed substrata

Additional information

European Nature Information (EUNIS) A3.535 - Halichondria bowerbanki, Eudendrium arbusculum and Eucratea loricata on reduced salinity tide-swept circalittoral mixed substrata (Davies & Moss, 1998).

This review can be cited as follows:

Hiscock, K. 2002. Halichondria bowerbanki, Eudendrium arbusculum and Eucratea loricata on reduced salinity tide-swept circalittoral mixed substrata. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 19/06/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatclassification.php?habitatid=45&code=2004>

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