11.215 - Hydrothermal benthic communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Highly distinctive benthic communities inhabiting the vicinity of oceanic hydrothermal vents, mostly localized along the central rift of the mid-oceanic ridges and along submerged volcanic chains of lesser ocean basins.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Laubier, 1983: 46-47, 121; Barnes and Hughes, 1988; Clark, 1990; Rona, 1993; Laubier, 1993; Cann & al., 1994; Riedel, 1999; Maddocks, 2000; Lutz and Kristof, 2000.