Concept: Sublittoral mud in the eunishabitats vocabulary

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Concept URI	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/A5.3
Preferred label	Sublittoral mud
Definition	Sublittoral mud and cohesive sandy mud extending from the extreme lower shore to offshore, circalittoral habitats. This biotope is predominantly found in sheltered harbours, sealochs, bays, marine inlets and estuaries and stable deeper/offshore areas where the reduced influence of wave action and/or tidal streams allow fine sediments to settle. Such habitats are often by dominated by polychaetes and echinoderms, in particular brittlestars such as [Amphiura] spp. Seapens such as [Virgularia mirabilis] and burrowing megafauna including [Nephrops norvegicus] are common in deeper muds. Estuarine muds tend to be characterised by infaunal polychaetes and oligochaetes.
Notation	A5.3
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2014-01-31
Accepted Date	2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Has broader	A5 (Sublittoral sediment) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has narrower	A5.31 (Sublittoral mud in low or reduced salinity) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.32 (Sublittoral mud in variable salinity (estuaries)) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.33 (Infralittoral sandy mud) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.34 (Infralittoral fine mud) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.35 (Circalittoral sandy mud) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.36 (Circalittoral fine mud) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.37 (Deep circalittoral mud) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.38 (Mediterranean communities of muddy detritic bottoms) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.39 (Mediterranean communities of coastal terrigenous muds) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has exact match	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/2502