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A.1739 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1739
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance covers estuarine and marine seagrass beds, dominated or codominated by ~Thalassia testudinum$. Associations of this alliance can be monodominant with ~Thalassia testudinum$, but may also have admixtures of other seagrass species, including ~Cymodocea filiformis (= Syringodium filiforme)$ and ~Halodule beaudettei (= Halodule wrightii)$. This alliance occurs primarily in shallow waters (primarily 0.4-4 m in depth), of high salinity (greater than 17 ppt), and on coarse-grained sediments. It ranges discontinuously from southern Florida to Mexico along the Gulf Coast of North America, and throughout the Caribbean. In Texas, it occurs primarily south of Aransas Bay, and is most abundant in the Laguna Madre and Corpus Christi Bay areas. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1481.A1739
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: V.C.1.N.b
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: THALASSIA TESTUDINUM PERMANENTLY FLOODED - TIDAL HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1739
  Common: Turtle-grass Permanently Flooded - Tidal Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Thalassia testudinum Permanently Flooded - Tidal Herbaceous Alliance