Habitat list - MarLIN - The Marine Life Information Network

Habitat list

Browse available information on habitats (as biotopes) and their sensitivity to man-made pressures. This simplified list is based on the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland v22.04 and divided into the major habitat types and habitat complexes used in the classification. Please note habitats are listed using their v22.04 biotopes names.

= MarESA review. = MarLIN review.

[Show more]Maritime cliffs and slopes

Yellow and grey lichens on supralittoral rock

Prasiola stipitata on nitrate-enriched supralittoral or littoral fringe rock

[Show more]Intertidal rock

Blue mussel and barnacle dominated rock

Brown and red seaweed dominated rock

Tide-swept brown seaweeds

Brown seaweed and barnacle dominated rock

Underboulder communities (intertidal)

Brown seaweed and piddocks on soft rock

Peat and clay communities

Brown seaweed dominated rock

Brown seaweed dominated estuarine rock

Sea loch egg wrack beds

Blue mussel and brown seaweed dominated rock

[Show more]Features of intertidal rock

Black lichen covered rock

Intertidal cave and overhangs

Intertidal vertical chalk

Ephemeral green and red seaweed communities

[Show more]Intertidal chalk communities

Blidingia spp. on vertical littoral fringe soft rock

Ulothrix flacca and Urospora spp. on freshwater-influenced vertical littoral fringe soft rock

[Show more]Intertidal sediment

Intertidal coarse sediment (gravels, shingle, and pebble ) shore

Intertidal sands

Intertidal mudflats

Intertidal mixed sediment

Ephemeral seaweeds on unstable mixed sediment

[Show more]Coastal saltmarsh communities

Saltmarsh (pioneer)

Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community

[Show more]Seagrass beds (intertidal)

Zostera (Zosterella) noltei beds in littoral muddy sand

[Show more]Intertidal biogenic reefs

Honeycomb worm reefs

Blue mussel beds (intertidal)

[Show more]Subtidal rock (infralittoral)

Blue mussel beds (infralittoral)

Kelp dominated rock

Sediment scoured and disturbed kelps and seaweeds on rock

Kelps and red seaweed communities

Underboulder communities (subtidal)

Subtidal kelp and piddocks on soft rock

Tide-swept kelp communities

Silted kelp dominated communities

Estuarine rock communities (subtidal)

Saline lagoon communities (on rock)

Low or variable salinity, faunal communities on rock

[Show more]Features of subtidal rock (infralittoral)

Subtidal surge gullies and caves

[Show more]Subtidal rock (circalittoral)

Deep sponge communities

Blue mussel beds (circalittoral)

Tide-swept animal communities

Animal turf, sponge and sea anemone dominated rock

Echinoderm and encrusting species dominated rock

Ross worm on rock

Subtidal soft rock, peat, and clay communities

Green crenella beds

Sponges on variable salinity rock

Brachiopod and sea squirt dominated communities

[Show more]Features of subtidal rock (circalittoral)

Subtidal caves and overhangs

[Show more]Subtidal sediment

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

Subtidal sands and muddy sands

Subtidal mixed sediments

Kelps and seaweeds on sublittoral sediment

Saline lagoon communities (on sediment)

[Show more]Subtidal plant dominated sediments

Reduced salinity pondweed communities

Common reed beds

[Show more]Seagrass beds (subtidal)

Ruppia maritima in reduced salinity infralittoral muddy sand

Zostera (Zostera) marina beds on lower shore or infralittoral clean or muddy sand

[Show more]Subtidal biogenic reefs

Honeycomb worm crusts

Ross worm reefs

Serpulid aggregations

Horse mussel beds

Blue mussel beds (on subtidal sediment)

[Show more]Cold-water coral reef

Lophelia reefs

[Show more]Features of sublittoral sediment

Bubbling reefs in the aphotic zone

Seeps and vents in sublittoral sediments

[Show more]Deep-sea bed

Discrete Lophelia pertusa colonies on Atlantic mid bathyal coarse sediment

Atlanto-Arctic upper bathyal

Arctic lower bathyal

Atlantic upper abyssal

Atlantic lower bathyal

Atlantic mid bathyal

Atlantic upper bathyal