Biodiversity & Conservation

Habitat preferences and distribution

Muddy sand shores

LS.LSa.MuSa

Image Joint Nature Conservation Committee - View across a cockle strand (biotope LMS.Pcer). Image width foreground ca 10 m.
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LS.LSa.MuSa recorded () and expected () distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland

Found around all coasts of the UK but sparse around the south east coast where it is only found around the Wash and Thames estuary.

Habitat preferences

Temperature range preferences - Not relevant.

Water clarity preferences - Medium clarity / Medium turbidity
Low clarity / High turbidity
Poor clarity / Extreme turbidity

Limiting Nutrients - Nitrogen (nitrates)
Phosphorus (phosphates)

Other preferences - None

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This review can be cited as follows:

Tyler-Walters, H. & Marshall, C. 2006. Muddy sand shores. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 20/06/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatpreferences.php?habitatid=21&code=2004>

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