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Subtidal sands and muddy sands

Habitat listings

Estuarine (variable salinity)

 Infralittoral mobile sand in variable salinity (estuaries)

 Sublittoral sand in variable salinity (estuaries)

 Neomysis integer and Gammarus spp. in variable salinity infralittoral mobile sand

 Nephtys cirrosa and amphipods in variable salinity infralittoral mobile sand

Fine sands (infralittoral)

 Infralittoral mobile clean sand with sparse fauna

 Semi-permanent tube-building amphipods and polychaetes in sublittoral sand

 Nephtys cirrosa and Bathyporeia spp. in infralittoral sand

 Sertularia cupressina and Hydrallmania falcata on tide-swept sublittoral sand with cobbles or pebbles.

Muddy sands (infralittoral)

 Arenicola marina in infralittoral fine sand or muddy sand

 Echinocardium cordatum and Ensis spp. in lower shore and shallow sublittoral slightly muddy fine sand

 Fabulina fabula and Magelona mirabilis with venerid bivalves and amphipods in infralittoral compacted fine muddy sand

 Spisula subtruncata and Nephtys hombergii in shallow muddy sand

Fine sands (circalittoral)

 Abra prismatica, Bathyporeia elegans and polychaetes in circalittoral fine sand

 Echinocyamus pusillus, Ophelia borealis and Abra prismatica in circalittoral fine sand

 Siphonoecetes, Nephtyidae polychaetes and venerid bivalves in circalittoral sand

Muddy sands (circalittoral)

 Abra alba and Nucula nitidosa in circalittoral muddy sand or slightly mixed sediment

 Acrocnida brachiata with Astropecten irregularis and other echinoderms in circalittoral muddy sand

 Ophiura ophiura on circalittoral muddy sand

Sands (offshore)

 Maldanid polychaetes and Eudorellopsis deformis in offshore circalittoral sand or muddy sand

 Owenia fusiformis and Amphiura filiformis in offshore circalittoral sand or muddy sand