PACIFIC CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING | |||||||||||||||||||||
** SCLERACTINIAN CORAL CLASSIFICATIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||
System[1] | code[2] | Zone[3] | code[4] | Percentage of Substrate | code[5] | Living Cover[6] | code[7] | Coral Genera (Hawaii only) | code[8] | Coral (Growth) Morphology | code[9] | ||||||||||
basalt island[10] | bi | intertidal [11] | it | UNCONSOLIDATED[12] | u | seagrass[13] | sg | Pocillopora | pp | Massive | m | ||||||||||
sea stack[14] | ss | lagoon[15] | lg | mud[16] | m | non-scleractinian coral[17] | ns | Porities (massive & encrusting) | pm | Plate-like | p | ||||||||||
carbonate island[18] | ci | reef flat[19] | rf | sand[20] | s | scleractinian coral**[21] | sc | Porities compressa | pc | Encrusting | e | ||||||||||
closed atoll[22] | ca | back reef[23] | br | coralline algae[24] | ca | Montipora | m | Branching | b | ||||||||||||
open atoll[25] | oa | reef crest[26] | rc | coral or coralline algae[27] | cc | Acropora | a | Columnar | c | ||||||||||||
submerged bank/reef[28] | sb | fore reef[29] | fr | HARDBOTTOM[30] | h | macroalgae[31] | ma | Leptoseris | l | Free-living | f | ||||||||||
continental reef[32] | cr | shelf[33] | sh | rubble[34] | rb | turf algae[35] | ta | Other live coral | ol | ||||||||||||
escarpment[36] | es | boulder[37] | b | unclassified algae[38] | ua | unencrusted coral | ue | ||||||||||||||
land[39] | ln | rock[40] | rk | emergent vegetation[41] | ev | ||||||||||||||||
man-made structure[42] | mm | Giant Clam | gc | ||||||||||||||||||
Other non-mobile inverts[43] | nm | ||||||||||||||||||||
None[44] | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
unclassified[45] | uc | unclassified[46] | uc | unclassified[47] | uc | unclassified[48] | uc | unclassified[49] | uc | unclassified[50] | uc | ||||||||||
Mobile Fauna[51] | counts[52] | Class of Relief[53] | code[54] | Holes[55] | code[56] | ||||||||||||||||
small (<20 cm) fish | # | ( <= 0.5 m ) | 1 | no cavities | no | ||||||||||||||||
med (20-50 cm) fish | # | (>0.5, <= 1.0 ) | 2 | few small cavities | fs | ||||||||||||||||
large (>50 cm) fish | # | ( >1.0, <= 2.0 ) | 3 | many small cavities | ms | ||||||||||||||||
shark | # | ( >2.0, <= 3.0 ) | 4 | few large cavities | fl | ||||||||||||||||
ray | # | ( > 3.0 ) | 5 | many large cavities | ml | ||||||||||||||||
Echinoderm[57] | # | few sml and lrg cavities | fsl | ||||||||||||||||||
Crown-of-Thorns | # | many sml & lrg cavities | msl | ||||||||||||||||||
Mollusc | # | many sml & few lrg cavities | msf | ||||||||||||||||||
crab | # | ||||||||||||||||||||
lobster | # | ||||||||||||||||||||
Other Inverts | # | ||||||||||||||||||||
uc | unclassified[58] | uc | unclassified[59] | uc | |||||||||||||||||