11.4121 - Western Tethyan marine tasselweed communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Submerged beds of Ruppia maritima, including Ruppia maritima ssp. rostellata, or Ruppia cirrhosa (Ruppia drepanensis, Ruppia spiralis) and of Chara spp. of sea inlets, estuaries, permanent pools of mud or sand flats and coastal lagoons of Mediterranean coasts and of thermo-Atlantic coasts of southwestern Iberia, of norhwestern Africa, south to 27øN, and of the Macaronesian islands.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Ruppietum drepanensis i.a.

Bibliography

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)

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