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Subtidal coarse sediment (cobble, pebble, gravel, coarse sand)

Habitat listings

 Sublittoral coarse sediments in variable salinity (estuaries)

Coarse sediment (infralittoral)

 Cumaceans and Chaetozone setosa in infralittoral gravelly sand

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

 Sparse fauna on highly mobile sublittoral shingle (cobbles and pebbles)

 Glycera lapidum in impoverished infralittoral mobile gravel and sand

 Halcampa chrysanthellum and Edwardsia timida on sublittoral clean stone gravel

 Hesionura elongata and Microphthalmus similis with other interstitial polychaetes in infralittoral mobile coarse sand

 Moerella spp. with venerid bivalves in infralittoral gravelly sand

Coarse sediment (circalittoral)

 Branchiostoma lanceolatum in circalittoral coarse sand with shell gravel

 Mediomastus fragilis, Lumbrineris spp. and venerid bivalves in circalittoral coarse sand or gravel

 Neopentadactyla mixta in circalittoral shell gravel or coarse sand

 Protodorvillea kefersteini and other polychaetes in impoverished circalittoral mixed gravelly sand

 Spirobranchus triqueter with barnacles and bryozoan crusts on unstable circalittoral cobbles and pebbles

Coarse sediment (offshore)

 Glycera lapidum, Thyasira spp. and Amythasides macroglossus in offshore gravelly sand

 Hesionura elongata and Protodorvillea kefersteini in offshore coarse sand