Fauna-dominated Black Sea infralittoral cobbles and gravels

Black Sea faunal communities present in infralittoral coarse sediments including pebbles, cobbles, fine gravels, coarse sands and shell hash. The habitat comprises a diverse range of communities which include: sparse fauna on pebbles and gravels, environments beneath cobbles and gravels and shell hash with well defined characteristic species (Branchiostoma lanceolatum - Protodorvillea kefersteini - Ophelia limacina). This biotope is found in coastal surge zones, as well as on wave lashed bottoms in open coast environments and deposits affected by unidirectional currents. Typical characterising species in coarse sand and shell gravel environments include the lancelet Branchiostoma lanceolatum and polychaetes Protodorvillea kefersteini and Ophelia limacina.

Código Eunis 2021: MB341