Wetland Types

01: shallow sea bays and straits (under six metres at low tide)
02: estuaries, deltas
03: small offshore islands, islets
04: rocky sea coasts, sea cliffs
05: sea beaches (sand, pebbles)
06: inter-tidal mudflats, sand flats
07: mangrove swamps, mangrove forest
08: coastal brackish and saline lagoons and marshes
09: salt pans (artificial)
10: shrimp ponds, fish ponds
11: rivers, streams - slow-flowing (lower perennial)
12: rivers, streams - fast-flowing (upper perennial)
13: oxbow lakes, riverine marshes
14: freshwater lakes and associated marshes (lacustrine)
15: freshwater ponds (under 8 hectares), marshes, swamps (palustrine)
16: salt lakes, saline marshes (inland drainage systems)
17: water storage reservoirs, dams
18: seasonally flooded grassland, savanna, palm savanna
19: rice paddies
20: flooded arable land, irrigated land
21: swamp forest, temporarily flooded forest
22: peat bogs