Epifaunal, attached; bryozoa, shells, etc.; passive suspension feeder; marine; temperate to warm; 0–60 m; inner shelf. [details]
Epifaunal or infaunal, free; fine sand; detritivore; marine; cold; shelf–abyssal. [details]
Infaunal but also epifaunal in phytodetritus (Gooday, 1993; Heinz et al., 2001) [details]
Epifaunal, free; often associated with phytodetritus but also lives on sediment; normal marine; cold; deep sea. [details]
Epifaunal, clinging; algal-covered carbonate gravels; herbivore, symbionts; marine; 18–26 ?C; 5–100 m; inner ... [details]
Epifaunal on sediment and hard substrates, especially coral rubble, sheltering in crevices in high-energy settings ... [details]
Epifaunal, free; sand; detritivore; marine; 10 ?C; 20–700 m; shelf–upper bathyal. [details]
Infaunal?, free; sediment; detritivore?; brackish; temperate–tropical; marshes. [details]
Brackish marshes and mangals, Texas, USA, to French Guiana. [details]
Infaunal, free; muddy sediment; detritivore; brackish–marine; temperate–tropical; brackish marshes and lagoons, ... [details]
Restricted to Europe; occasionally on marsh (Cearreta, 1988), mainly low intertidal to subtidal; salinity 15–29 ... [details]
Infaunal down to at least 9 cm, subtidal in microtidal estuaries. [details]
A minor to subsidiary species on brackish marshes; dominant in mangals in French Guiana. [details]
Infaunal down to 10cm on brackish marshes and lagoons, salinity 0–25, temperature 0–27 °C, Massachusetts, USA, ... [details]
Infaunal in lagoons, salinity 34, temperature 17–28 °C, North Carolina to Texas, USA (Buzas and Severin, 1982; ... [details]
Salinity 20–32, temperature 4–14 °C, on organic-rich muddy sediment, dominant in deeper water close to the ... [details]
Infaunal?, free; sediment; detritivore?; marine; cold; shelf–upper bathyal. [details]
Infaunal, free; muddy sand; herbivore?; brackish, marine, hypersaline; warm temperate–tropical; 0–50 m; brackish ... [details]
Deep infaunal in anoxic sediment, also in surface sediment; colonises macrofaunal burrows to feed on the bacteria ... [details]
Infaunal?, free; sediment; detritivore; brackish–marine; cold–temperate; inner shelf. [details]
In Europe, common only in fine to medium sand with 20% mud, and low TOC (0.2–0.7%), salinity 16–18, ... [details]
Infaunal, free; muddy sediment; detritivore; brackish; 0–30 °C; 0–10 m; tidal marshes, brackish lagoons and ... [details]
Infaunal detritivore lying horizontally in the top 5cm of sediment and possibly indicating the halocline (Olsson, 1976; ... [details]
Infaunal down to 10 cm, detritivore (including bacteria, Matera and Lee, 1972), marshes on Pacific North America ... [details]
Epifaunal, clinging; phytal, carbonate sediment; herbivore, symbionts; marine; 19–26 °C; 0–50 m; lagoon, nearshore. [details]
Epifaunal/epiphytic on hard substrates including seagrass; dinoflagellate symbionts; test large (up to 1.5 cm); may ... [details]
Epiphytic on seagrasses and less commonly on algae; has endosymbiotic dinoflagellates; stenohaline (salinity 35–42; ... [details]
Epifaunal, free; phytal, coarse carbonate; herbivore, symbionts; marine; winter minimum 15 ?C, generally 20 °C; 0–130 ... [details]
Epifaunal mainly on hard substrates; one of the deepest-dwelling Amphistegina species, 60–120 m; Indo-Pacific. [details]
Epifaunal on sediment and hard substrates; occurs over a broad depth range of 0–90 m; the umbiliconvex form is ... [details]
Epifaunal on substrates in high-energy settings and on sand in sheltered settings between coral rubble covered in ... [details]
Mainly on sandy substrates; one of the deepest of the Amphistegina species. [details]
Epifaunal, mainly on hard substrates but sometimes on sediment; below fair-weather wave base, 20–90 m; Indo-Pacific. [details]
Epiphytic on green filamentous algae and on rhizomes of Thalassia; probably has endosymbionts; euryhaline in Florida ... [details]
Epifaunal, clinging; phytal; herbivore, symbionts; marine; >22 °C; 0–20 m; inner shelf. [details]
Epifaunal, epiphytic on seagrass; chlorophyte symbionts; 0–20 m; salinity 35–42; confined to the Atlantic Ocean, ... [details]
Epifaunal and infaunal, free or clinging; muddy sediment; herbivore; brackish–hypersaline; 0–30 ?C; mainly ... [details]
Epifaunal, and infaunal down to 60cm, abundant on Gulf of Mexico marshes in Salicornia–Spartina zones and ... [details]
Epifaunal, free; phytal or sediment; marine–hypersaline; >20 °C; 0–3500 m; inner shelf–bathyal. [details]
Epifaunal, free; sediment; herbivore?; marine; 0–100 m; subtropical–tropical; inner shelf. [details]
Epifaunal, free; sediment; herbivore?; marine; temperate; 0–100 m; inner shelf. [details]
Epifaunal, free; sediment; herbivore?; marine; subtropical–tropical; inner shelf. [details]
Epifaunal–infaunal, free–clinging; muddy sediment; detritivore?; marine; cold; shelf–bathyal. [details]
Epifaunal, sessile; sediment; passive suspension feeder/carnivore; marine; cold–temperate; shelf. [details]
Epifaunal; sometimes close to sediment mounds produced by burrowing crustaceans; probably a suspension feeder ... [details]
Infaunal?, free; sediment; slightly brackish; temperate to warm; lagoons, inner shelf [details]
Subsidiary in Venice lagoon, salinity 28–32, temperature 6–27 °C (Donicci et al., 1997); this is a warm-water ... [details]
Epifaunal, clinging; phytal; herbivore, symbionts; marine; >25 °C; 0–10 m; coral reefs, lagoons. [details]
Epifaunal, reef flat pools clinging to algae, <10 m; western Pacific. [details]
Epifaunal on hard substrates such as coral rubble; a deep form, 15–80 m; core of the Indo-Pacific. [details]
Epifaunal, free; detritivore?; very euryhaline; uppermost tidal marsh [details]
Epifaunal, sometimes clinging to algal filaments; characteristic of low-salinity brackish high marsh closest to ... [details]
Infaunal; living more-or-less horizontally in the upper 5cm of sediment; deposit feeder (Gooday et al., 1992a, ... [details]
Upright tubes extending out of the sediment; feed on detrital material from the sediment surface in areas of high ... [details]
Upright tubes extending out of the sediment; feed on detrital material from the sediment surface in areas of high ... [details]
Epifaunal?, free; sediment; omnivore; marine; temperate–warm; shelf. [details]
Infaunal–epifaunal, free; muddy sediment; some species tolerate dysoxia; detritivore?; marine; cold–warm; inner ... [details]
Shallow infaunal, oxic but can tolerate dysoxia (Douglas, 1981). [details]
Shallow infaunal, oxic environments (Douglas, 1981). [details]
Shallow infaunal, tolerant of dysoxia 22 to <76 µM (0.5 to <1.7 ml l-1, Douglas, 1981). [details]
Infaunal?, free; muddy sediment; marine; temperate–cold; shelf–upper bathyal. [details]
Infaunal, free; muddy sediment; marine–slightly brackish; temperate; inner shelf and marginal marine [details]
Epifaunal, free; algal-coated substrates, seagrass and coarse sediment; herbivore, symbionts; marine; 18–26 ?C; ... [details]
Epifaunal on hard substrates and epiphytic on seagrass; diatom symbionts; back-reef coral rubble and coral sand; ... [details]
Epifaunal on hard substrates and epiphytic on seagrass; diatom symbionts; back-reef coral rubble and coral sand; ... [details]
Infaunal, free; muddy sediment; some species tolerate dysoxia; detritivore; marine; cold–temperate; marginal ... [details]
A facultative anaerobe (Sen Gupta et al., 1997); a high-flux species (Gooday, 2003) and associated with methane seeps. [details]
Shallow infaunal, tolerant of dysoxia <18 µM (<0.4ml l-1, Douglas, 1981; Bernhard et al., 1997). [details]
A facultative anaerobe (Sen Gupta et al., 1997). [details]
Dominant in Indian River lagoon, USA, and Jamaica, and widely present in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean; mangal, ... [details]
Infaunal?, free; muddy sediment; detritivore?; marine; cold–temperate; 0–100 m; lagoons–inner shelf. [details]
Locally subsidiary to dominant in Svalbard fjords at depths 100m and Russian estuaries, southern limit in ... [details]
Infaunal, free; mud–fine sand; some species tolerate dysoxia; detritivore?; marine; cold–temperate; inner ... [details]
Deep infaunal in anoxic sediment, also in surface sediment; colonises macrofaunal burrows to feed on the bacteria ... [details]
Infaunal to at least 4 cm; shows a strong positive correlation with %TOC and a negative correlation with % coarse ... [details]
Shallow infaunal, tolerates dysoxia 1–15 µM (Bernhard et al., 1997). [details]
Infaunal, free; muddy sediment; detritivore?; marine; temperate; mainly shelf but also lagoons and upper bathyal. [details]
Epifaunal, free; sediment; herbivore, symbionts; marine; 18–26 °C; 0–70 m; lagoons, reefs, inner shelf. [details]
Epifaunal; avoids wave influence at the reef crest, 10–30 m; western Pacific. [details]
Epifaunal, reef flat pools clinging to algae, <10 m; western Pacific. [details]
Epifaunal and epiphytic on algae; the most abundant calcarinid, 0–70m but mainly below fair-weather wave base; ... [details]
Epifaunal on exposed slopes of reefs and hard substrates where it attaches itself using protoplasmic plugs at the ... [details]
Epifaunal, free; sediment; detritivore?; marine; temperate–subtropical; 50–150 m; shelf. [details]
Epifaunal; prefers high organic flux (Altenbach et al., 1999). [details]
Infaunal, free; mud; detritivore; marine; temperate; shelf. [details]
Infaunal or epifaunal, free; mud, sand; detritivore; marine; cold–temperate; shelf–bathyal. [details]
Infaunal, strong positive correlation with % coarse sand and negative correlation with fine sediment and %TOC off ... [details]
A facultative anaerobe (Sen Gupta et al., 1997). [details]
Prefers cold (<1 °C) water of normal salinity >34.5 (Korsun and Hald, 1998). [details]
Typical of cold waters (-11 °C) in high latitudes (Mackensen and Hald, 1988). [details]
Deep infaunal, free; mud; tolerates dysoxia; detritivore; marine; outer shelf–bathyal. [details]
Deep infaunal; tolerates dysoxia (Schönfeld, 2001). [details]
Infaunal, tolerates dysoxia (Bernhard et al., 1997). [details]
Epifaunal, attached; hard substrates in high energy; passive suspension feeder?; marine; cold–warm; 0–2000 m; ... [details]