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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

 Calocaris macandreae and polychaetes in offshore circalittoral mud and sandy mud

 Capitella capitata and Thyasira spp. in organically-enriched offshore circalittoral mud and sandy mud

 Capitella capitata and Tubificoides spp. in reduced salinity infralittoral muddy sediment

 Capitella capitata in enriched sublittoral muddy sediments

 Capitella capitata, Thyasira spp. and Ophryotrocha dubia in organically-enriched offshore circalittoral mud or sandy mud

 Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) smithii and sponges with Pentapora foliacea, Porella compressa and crustose communities on wave-exposed circalittoral rock

 Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) smithii and Swiftia pallida on circalittoral rock

 Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) smithii with faunal and algal crusts on moderately wave-exposed circalittoral rock

 Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) smithii, sponges and crustose communities on wave-exposed circalittoral rock

 Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) smithii, Swiftia pallida and Alcyonium glomeratum on wave-sheltered circalittoral rock

 Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) smithii, Swiftia pallida and large solitary ascidians on exposed or moderately exposed circalittoral rock

 Caryophyllia smithii and Actinauge richardi assemblage on Atlantic upper bathyal coarse sediment

 Ceramium sp. and piddocks on eulittoral fossilised peat

 Cerastoderma edule and polychaetes in littoral muddy sand

 Cerastoderma edule with Abra nitida in infralittoral mud

 Cerianthid anemones and burrowing megafauna in Atlantic mid bathyal mud

 Cerianthus lloydii and other burrowing anemones in circalittoral muddy mixed sediment

 Cerianthus lloydii with Nemertesia spp. and other hydroids in circalittoral muddy mixed sediment

 Chrysophyceae and Haptophyceae on vertical upper littoral fringe soft rock

 Chthamalus spp. and Lichina pygmaea on steep exposed upper eulittoral rock

 Chthamalus spp. on exposed eulittoral rock

 Chthamalus spp. on exposed upper eulittoral rock

 Circalittoral caves and overhangs

 Circalittoral faunal communities in variable salinity

 Circalittoral Sabellaria reefs (on rock)

 Cirratulids and Cerastoderma edule in littoral mixed sediment

 Codium spp. with red seaweeds and sparse Saccharina latissima on shallow, heavily-silted, very sheltered infralittoral rock

 Corallina officinalis and Mastocarpus stellatus on exposed to moderately exposed lower eulittoral rock

 Corallina officinalis on exposed to moderately exposed lower eulittoral rock

 Corallina officinalis, Himanthalia elongata and Patella ulyssiponensis on very exposed lower eulittoral rock

 Coralline crust-dominated shallow eulittoral rockpools

 Coralline crusts and Corallina officinalis in shallow eulittoral rockpools

 Coralline crusts and crustaceans on mobile boulders or cobbles in surge gullies

 Coralline crusts and Paracentrotus lividus in shallow eulittoral rockpools

 Coralline crusts in surge gullies and scoured infralittoral rock

 Cordylophora caspia and Einhornia crustulenta on reduced salinity infralittoral rock

 Corymorpha, Gersemia, Zoantharia and Heliometra glacialis on Arctic mid bathyal rock and other hard substrata

 Corynactis viridis and a mixed turf of crisiids, Bugula, Scrupocellaria, and Cellaria on moderately tide-swept exposed circalittoral rock

 Crepidula fornicata and Mediomastus fragilis in variable salinity infralittoral mixed sediment

 Crepidula fornicata with ascidians and anenomes on infralittoral coarse mixed sediment

 Crustose sponges and colonial ascidians with Dendrodoa grossularia or barnacles on wave-surged infralittoral rock

 Crustose sponges on extremely wave-surged infralittoral cave or gully walls

 Cumaceans and Chaetozone setosa in infralittoral gravelly sand

 Cushion sponges and hydroids on turbid tide-swept sheltered circalittoral rock

 Cushion sponges and hydroids on turbid tide-swept variable salinity sheltered circalittoral rock

 Cushion sponges, hydroids and ascidians on turbid tide-swept sheltered circalittoral rock

 Cylista undata and Ascidiella aspersa on infralittoral sandy mud

 Cystoseira spp. in eulittoral rockpools