Concept: Infralittoral coarse sediment in the eunishabitats vocabulary

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Concept URI	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/A5.13
Preferred label	Infralittoral coarse sediment
Definition	Moderately exposed habitats with coarse sand, gravelly sand, shingle and gravel in the infralittoral, are subject to disturbance by tidal steams and wave action. Such habitats found on the open coast or in tide-swept marine inlets are characterised by a robust fauna of infaunal polychaetes such as [Chaetozone setosa] and [Lanice conchilega], cumacean crustacea such as [Iphinoe trispinosa] and [Diastylis bradyi], and venerid bivalves. Habitats with the lancelet [Branchiostoma lanceolatum] may also occur.
Notation	A5.13
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2014-01-31
Accepted Date	2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
Has broader	A5.1 (Sublittoral coarse sediment) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has narrower	A5.131 (Sparse fauna on highly mobile sublittoral shingle (cobbles and pebbles)) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.132 ([Halcampa chrysanthellum] and [Edwardsia timida] on sublittoral clean stone gravel) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.133 ([Moerella] spp. with venerid bivalves in infralittoral gravelly sand) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.134 ([Hesionura elongata] and [Microphthalmus similis] with other interstitial polychaetes in infralittoral mobile coarse sand) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.135 ([Glycera lapidum] in impoverished infralittoral mobile gravel and sand) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.136 (Cumaceans and [Chaetozone setosa] in infralittoral gravelly sand) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.137 (Dense [Lanice conchilega] and other polychaetes in tide-swept infralittoral sand and mixed gravelly sand) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.138 (Association with rhodolithes in coarse sands and fine gravels mixed by waves) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.139 (Facies with [Gouania wildenowi]) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13A (Greenland cockle [Serripes] in shallow coarse sand (influenced by warm low-salinity melt water) of the Arctic) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13B (Pontic clean medium-coarse sands with bivalve associations) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13C (Pontic offshore infralittoral coarse sand banks) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13D (Pontic [Aonides ornatus], [Modiolus adriaticus] and [Gouldia minima] in coarse sand with shell gravel) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13E (Pontic [Branchiostoma lanceolatum], [Protodorvillea kefersteini] and [Ophelia limacina] in coarse sand with shell gravel) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13F (Pontic infralittoral wave-lashed fine gravels and coarse sands) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13G (Pontic infralittoral sheltered cobbles, pebbles and shelly gravels with encrusting spirorbid worms) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13H (Pontic scoured sublittoral cobbles and pebbles with sparse crustaceans) in biodiversity/eunishabitats A5.13I (Pontic silted cobbles with [Balanus eburneus], ascidians, [Actinia aequina], [Mytilus galloprovincialis] and [Pisidia longicornis]) in biodiversity/eunishabitats
Has exact match	http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/5423