Annex 4: MAIN BLACK SEA HABITATS AND CRITICAL HABITATS AT NATIONAL LEVEL

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

 

CR

X

4. Estuaries and deltas

X

CR

CR

 

CR

CR

5. Wetlands and saltmarshes

CR

CR

X

 

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

 

 

 

X

X

1.2 Chthamalus stellatus on exposed supralittoral rock

X

 

 

 

X

X

2. Supralittoral sand

2.1 Taliid amphipods in decomposing seaweed on the sand-line

X

 

X

X

 

X

3. Mediolittoral rock

3.1 Mussels and/or barnacles on very/moderately exposed mediolittoral rock

X

CR

X

 

X

X

3.2 Enteromorpha spp. Minor development of Ceramium, Cladophora, Coralina, Porphyra

X

 

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

 

X

X

 

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

 

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

 

X

X

X

X

5.4 Pholas dactylus in infralittoral soft rock.

X

 

X

 

 

X

5.5 Peicola litophaga in infralittoral hard rock

X

 

X

 

 

 

5.6 Spirorbid worms on infralittoral rock, Vermiliopsis infundibulum biogenic rocks

X

X

 

 

 

X

5.7 Sponge crusts, colonial ascidians and a bryozoan/hydroid turf on moderately exposed to sheltered infralittoral rock

X

 

X

 

 

X

5.8 Polydora sp. tubes on infralittoral soft rock

X

X

X

 

 

X

5.9 Ficopomatus enigmaticus biogenic reefs

X

 

X

 

 

 

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

 

 

CR

 

 

CR

6.4 Solen marginatus in sheltered ifralittoral fine sands

X

 

 

 

X

X

6.5 Branchiostoma lanceolatum, Protodorvillea kefersteini and Ophelia limacina in circalittoral coarse sand with shell gravel

X

 

 

X

 

X

6.6 Mytilus galloprovincialis beds on coarse sand with shell gravel

X

 

X

X

X

X

6.7 Phyllophora nervosa on shell gravel

 

 

X

 

X

CR

6.8 Modiolus adriaticus, Aonides paucibranchiata and Gouldia minima in coarse sands

X

X

 

CR

X

X

6.9 Mya arenaria in sands and muddy sands

X

 

X

 

X

X

6.10 Anadara inequivalvis on sands and muddy sands

X

 

X

X

 

X

6.11 Zostera beds in lower shore or infralittoral clean or muddy sand

CR

 

X

X

X

CR

6.12 Melinna palmata in infralittoral mud

X

X

X

 

 

CR

6.13 Abra alba, Cardiidae and Mytilus in infralittoral mud

X

X

 

CR

X

X

6.14 Mya arenaria and Mytilus galloprovincialis in infralittoral mud

 

 

X

 

 

X

6.15 Nephthys in infralittoral mud

 

 

X

 

 

X

6.16 Mytilus galloprovincialis beds in infralitoral and circalittoral mud

CR

X

 

X

X

X

6.17 Spisula subuncata and Aricidea claudiae in circalittoral mud

X

 

 

CR

X

X

6.18 Modiolula phaseolina, Amphiura stepanovi and Notomastus profundus in circalittoral mud

X

 

X

X

X

CR

6.19 Pachycerianthus solitarius in circalittoral mud

X

 

X

X

 

X

6.20 Periazoic zone

X

 

X

X

 

X

6.21 Anoxic H2S zone with anaerobic sulphate reducing bacteria

X

 

X

X

X

X

 

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