Baltic offshore circalittoral mixed bottoms characterized by epibenthic chordates

Baltic offshore bottoms in the aphotic zone, below halocline/pycnocline with 10- 90 % coverage of hard (rock/boulders/stone) and 10-90 % soft substrata (e.g. muddy/coarse sediment/sand). Sessile/semi-sessile epibenthic chordates cover at least 10 % of the seabed and more than other perennial attached erect groups. Depth is typically from 20 to 100 meters.Characteristic species Ascidiacea: Dendrodoa grossularia, Molgula spp

Código Eunis 2021: MD4312