Hornsund Fjord, biodiversity for different users



Sublittoral habitats


Glaciomarine mud below euphotic zone


Stony and mud diversified bottom below euphotic zone


Underwater rocky walls and boulders


Kelp forests


Species for scuba divers
Epifauna, nectobenthos over 10 mm in length
nameclass
Acanthotrochus mirabilisEchinodermata
Aeginopsis laurentiiMacroplankton
Aglantha digitaleMacroplankton
Alaria esculentaMacrophyta
Amblyraja radiataPisces
Amphiura sundevalliEchinodermata
Anarhichas lupusPisces
Anisarchus mediusPisces
Anonyx nugaxCrustacea
Anonyx sarsiCrustacea
Astarte borealisMollusca
Astarte crenataMollusca
Astarte ellipticaMollusca
Astarte montaguiMollusca
Asterias rubensEchinodermata
Atylus carinatusCrustacea
Aulactinia stellaAnthozoa
Balanus balanusCrustacea
Bathyarca glacialisMollusca
Beroe cucumisMacroplankton
Boreochiton ruberMollusca
Boreogadus saidaPisces
Buccinum glacialeMollusca
Buccinum polareMollusca
Buccinum scalariformeMollusca
Buccinum terraenovaeMollusca
Buccinum undatumMollusca
Calliopius laeviusculusCrustacea
Callopora cf. lineataBryozoa
Caprella septentrionalisCrustacea
Celleporella hyalinaBryozoa
Cerianthus lloydii  Anthozoa
Chlamys islandicaMollusca
Ciliatocardium ciliatumMollusca
Clione limacinaMacroplankton
Clupea harengusPisces
Cribrilina annulataBryozoa
Cribrinopsis olegiAnthozoa
Cribrinopsis similis  Anthozoa
Crisia cf. eburneaBryozoa
Crossaster papposusEchinodermata
Cryptonatica affinisMollusca
Ctenodiscus crispatusEchinodermata
Cucumaria frondosaEchinodermata
Cuspidaria arcticaMollusca
Cuspidaria subtortaMollusca
Cyclopterus lumpusPisces
Delphinapterus leucasMammalia
Desmarestia aculeataMacrophyta
Dimophyes arcticaMacroplankton
Diplopteraster multipesEchinodermata
Dumontia contortaMacrophyta
Erignathus barbatusMammalia
Eualus gaimardii gaimardiiCrustacea
Eucratea loricataBryozoa
Eumicrotremus spinosusPisces
Euphysa flammeaMacroplankton
Eupyrgus scaberEchinodermata
Gadus morrhuaPisces
Gammarellus homariCrustacea
Gorgonocephalus eucnemisEchinodermata
Gymnocanthus tricuspisPisces
Halcampa arcticaAnthozoa
Halitholus cirratusMacroplankton
Harmeria scutulataBryozoa
Heliometra glacialisEchinodermata
Henricia sanguinolentaEchinodermata
Hiatella arcticaMollusca
Hippasteria phrygianaEchinodermata
Hormathia nodosa  Anthozoa
Hyas araneusCrustacea
Hymenaster pellucidusEchinodermata
Icelus bicornisPisces
Laminaria digitataMacrophyta
Laminaria solidungulaMacrophyta
Lebbeus polarisCrustacea
Leptochiton arcticusMollusca
Limacina helicinaMacroplankton
Limacina retroversaMacroplankton
Liparis liparisPisces
Lumpenus lampraeteformisPisces
Lycodes nudusPisces
Macoma calcareaMollusca
Mallotus villosusPisces
Margarites costalisMollusca
Margarites groenlandicusMollusca
Margarites helicinusMollusca
Margarites olivaceusMollusca
Marthasterias glacialisEchinodermata
Melanogrammus aeglefinusPisces
Mertensia ovumMacroplankton
Musculus corrugatusMollusca
Musculus discorsMollusca
Musculus glacialisMollusca
Musculus nigraMollusca
Mya truncataMollusca
Myoxocephalus scorpiusPisces
Myriotrochus rinkiiEchinodermata
Neptunea despectaMollusca
Odobaenus rosmarusMammalia
Odonthalia dentataMacrophyta
Onchorhynchus gorbushaPisces
Onisimus caricusCrustacea
Onisimus edwardsiCrustacea
Ophiacantha bidentataEchinodermata
Ophiocten sericeumEchinodermata
Ophiopholis aculeataEchinodermata
Ophiopleura borealisEchinodermata
Ophioscolex glacialisEchinodermata
Ophiura robustaEchinodermata
Ophiura sarsiiEchinodermata
Orcinus orcaMammalia
Pagurus pubescensCrustacea
Pandalus borealisCrustacea
Parasagitta elegansMacroplankton
Phoca hispidaMammalia
Phoca vitulinaMammalia
Phycodrys rubensMacrophyta
Poliometra prolixaEchinodermata
Pollachius virensPisces
Pontaster tenuispinusEchinodermata
Poraniomorpha tumidaEchinodermata
Portlandia arcticaMollusca
Psolus squamatusEchinodermata
Pteraster militarisEchinodermata
Pteraster obscurusEchinodermata
Ptilota plumosaMacrophyta
Reinhardtius hippoglossoidesPisces
Sabinea septemcarinataCrustacea
Saccharina latissimaMacrophyta
Salvelinus alpinusPisces
Sclerocrangon boreasCrustacea
Sclerocrangon feroxCrustacea
Scomber scomberPisces
Serripes groenlandicusMollusca
Similipecten greenlandicusMollusca
Solaster endecaEchinodermata
Spirontocaris spinusCrustacea
Stegophiura nodosaEchinodermata
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensisEchinodermata
Themisto sppMacroplankton
Thysanoessa sppMacroplankton
Tonicella marmoreaMollusca
Tricellaria ternataBryozoa
Triglops pingeliPisces
Urasterias linckiEchinodermata
Urticina crassicornis  Anthozoa
Weyprechtia pinguisCrustacea
Yoldia hyperboreaMollusca
Yoldiella solidulaMollusca
 Littoral Pelagial