The Marine Life Information Network

Habitats (A-Z)

Browse available information on habitats (as biotopes) and their sensitivity to man-made pressures. Habitats are listed from A to Z by the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland (v22.04) biotope name (JNCC, 2022).

= MarESA review.   = MarLIN review.

A-Z listings

 Deep sponge communities

 Dendrodoa grossularia and Clathrina coriacea on wave-surged vertical infralittoral rock

 Dense brittlestars with sparse Ascidia mentula and Ciona intestinalis on sheltered circalittoral mixed substrata

 Dense Desmarestia spp. with filamentous red seaweeds on exposed infralittoral cobbles, pebbles and bedrock

 Dense foliose red seaweeds on silty moderately exposed infralittoral rock

 Dense Lanice conchilega and other polychaetes in tide-swept infralittoral sand and mixed gravelly sand

 Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic mid bathyal coarse sediment

 Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic mid bathyal rock and other hard substrata

 Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic upper bathyal coarse sediment

 Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic upper bathyal rock and other hard substrata

 Discrete Solenosmilia variabilis colonies on Atlantic lower bathyal coarse sediment

 Discrete Solenosmilia variabilis colonies on Atlantic lower bathyal rock and other hard substrata