Black Sea Habitats |
National habitats:
X – present, CR – critical |
BU |
GE |
RO |
RU |
TU |
UA |
Coastal margin ecotones |
1. Sedimentary shores |
X |
CR |
X |
X |
X |
X |
2. Rocky shores |
X |
CR |
X |
X |
X |
X |
3. Coastal brackish/saline lagoons |
CR |
CR |
CR |
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CR |
X |
4. Estuaries and deltas |
X |
CR |
CR |
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CR |
CR |
5. Wetlands and saltmarshes |
CR |
CR |
X |
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CR |
CR |
Pelagic habitats (water column) |
1. Neritic |
CR |
CR |
CR |
X |
X |
CR |
2. Open sea |
X |
CR |
X |
X |
CR |
X |
Benthic habitats |
1. Supralittoral rock |
1.1 Association of Littorina neritoides, Lygia italica and Tylos laeillei on exposed or moderately exposed supralittoral rock |
X |
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X |
X |
1.2 Chthamalus stellatus on exposed supralittoral rock |
X |
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X |
X |
2. Supralittoral sand |
2.1 Taliid amphipods in decomposing seaweed on the sand-line |
X |
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X |
X |
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X |
3. Mediolittoral rock |
3.1 Mussels and/or barnacles on very/moderately exposed mediolittoral rock |
X |
CR |
X |
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X |
X |
3.2 Enteromorpha spp. Minor development of Ceramium, Cladophora, Coralina, Porphyra |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
X |
4. Mediolittoral sand and muddy sands |
4.1 Coarse sands with Donacilla cornea and facultative Ophelia bicornis |
CR |
CR |
CR |
CR |
X |
X |
4.2 Fine sands with Pontogammarus maeoticus |
X |
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X |
X |
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X |
5. Sublittoral rock/other hard subsata |
5.1 Facies with Mytilus galloprovincialis, on exposed or moderately exposed infralittoral rock – vertical or bedrock |
X |
X |
CR |
X |
X |
X |
5.2 Association with Cystoseira spp. on exposed or moderately exposed infralittoral bedrock and boulders |
CR |
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CR |
X |
CR |
CR |
5.3 Association of green and red seaweeds on moderately exposed or sheltered infralittoral rock Enteromorpha, Ulva spp., Porphyra spp. |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
X |
5.4 Pholas dactylus in infralittoral soft rock. |
X |
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X |
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X |
5.5 Peicola litophaga in infralittoral hard rock |
X |
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X |
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5.6 Spirorbid worms on infralittoral rock, Vermiliopsis infundibulum biogenic rocks |
X |
X |
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X |
5.7 Sponge crusts, colonial ascidians and a bryozoan/hydroid turf on moderately exposed to sheltered infralittoral rock |
X |
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X |
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X |
5.8 Polydora sp. tubes on infralittoral soft rock |
X |
X |
X |
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X |
5.9 Ficopomatus enigmaticus biogenic reefs |
X |
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X |
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6. Sublittoral sediments |
6.1 Donax unculus in infralittoral coarse sands |
X |
X |
X |
CR |
X |
X |
6.2 Chamelea gallina, Lentidium mediterraneum and Lucinella divaricata in shallow clean sands |
X |
X |
X |
CR |
X |
X |
6.3 Lentidium mediterraneum in shallow fine sands |
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CR |
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CR |
6.4 Solen marginatus in sheltered ifralittoral fine sands |
X |
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X |
X |
6.5 Branchiostoma lanceolatum, Protodorvillea kefersteini and Ophelia limacina in circalittoral coarse sand with shell gravel |
X |
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X |
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X |
6.6 Mytilus galloprovincialis beds on coarse sand with shell gravel |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
X |
6.7 Phyllophora nervosa on shell gravel |
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X |
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X |
CR |
6.8 Modiolus adriaticus, Aonides paucibranchiata and Gouldia minima in coarse sands |
X |
X |
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CR |
X |
X |
6.9 Mya arenaria in sands and muddy sands |
X |
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X |
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X |
X |
6.10 Anadara inequivalvis on sands and muddy sands |
X |
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X |
X |
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X |
6.11 Zostera beds in lower shore or infralittoral clean or muddy sand |
CR |
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X |
X |
X |
CR |
6.12 Melinna palmata in infralittoral mud |
X |
X |
X |
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CR |
6.13 Abra alba, Cardiidae and Mytilus in infralittoral mud |
X |
X |
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CR |
X |
X |
6.14 Mya arenaria and Mytilus galloprovincialis in infralittoral mud |
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X |
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X |
6.15 Nephthys in infralittoral mud |
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X |
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X |
6.16 Mytilus galloprovincialis beds in infralitoral and circalittoral mud |
CR |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
6.17 Spisula subuncata and Aricidea claudiae in circalittoral mud |
X |
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CR |
X |
X |
6.18 Modiolula phaseolina, Amphiura stepanovi and Notomastus profundus in circalittoral mud |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
CR |
6.19 Pachycerianthus solitarius in circalittoral mud |
X |
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X |
X |
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X |
6.20 Periazoic zone |
X |
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X |
X |
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X |
6.21 Anoxic H2S zone with anaerobic sulphate reducing bacteria |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
X |
