Evgeniya KARPOVA, Alexander BOLTACHEV, Svetlana STATKEVİCH, Olga DANYLYUK, Ilya TURBANOV

Cryptobenthic Fauna of the Mussel Farm's Collectors

In this study, cryptobenthic communities of fishes and decapod in underwater caves of Tarkhankut peninsula, underwater caves of southwestern Crimea and mussel's farm in Sebastopol were described. Structure and features of cryptobenthic fauna were considered for mussel's settlements and underwater habitat (caves and grottoes), the study of which is extremely complex and are sketchy and incomplete in the Black Sea. In the cryptobenthic fish community of the mussel fouling two new for Crimea fish species - zebra goby Zebrus zebrus and small-headed clingfish Apletodon dentatus, were discovered, both of them were previously found only sporadically in the southern part of the Black Sea. For the first time early developmental stage and morphometric characteristics of the Black Sea population of zebra goby were studied, this made it possible to identify the morphological differences between similar species Zebrus zebrus and Millerigobius macrocephalus. Some morphological features of the Black Sea population Apletodon dentatus, which is one of the rarest species of this genus, have been described. Species biodiversity and quantitative relationships in the crypthodentic decapod community was investigated. Adult specimens of two rare species of shrimp (Lismata seticaudata, Alpheus dentipes), previously known in this area for only a few find plankton larvae were first found in the fauna of decapods of southwestern Crimea. Results from study confirm that it is promisingly investigate the species diversity and abundance of cryptobenthic species fish and decapod in artificial populations of mussel fouling

___

Ahnelt, H., Herler, J., Scsepka, S. and Patzner, R.A. 1998. First records of two rare Mediterranean Gobiidae in the northern Thyrrenian Sea. Cybium, 22(2): 183-186.

Bacescu, M.C. 1967. Decapoda. In: Fauna Republicii Socialiste Romania. Crustacea, 9(4): 1-356 (In Romanian).

Banarescu, P. 1964. The fauna of the popular Republic of Romania. Pisces - Osteichthyes XIII Academici Republicii Populare. Romine Press, Romania, 959 pp. (In Romanian).

Bat, L., Demirci, G.G. and Öztürk, M. 2006. Occurrence of Apletodon dentatus bacescui (Murgoci, 1940) (Gobiesocidae) and

Coryphoblennius galerita (Linnaeus, 1758) (Blenniidae) at the central Black Sea coast Sea/Mediterranean Environment, 12: 59-65. of the Black

Bilecenoglu, M. and Kaya, M. 2006. The occurrence of Apletodon incognitus Hofrichter and Patzner, 1997 (Gobiesocidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Acta Ichthyol. Pisc., 36(2): 143-145.

Bogorodsky, S., Kovacic, M., Ozen, O. and Bilecenoglu, M. 2010. Records of two uncommon goby species (Millerigobius macrocephalus, Zebrus zebrus) from the Aegean Sea. Acta Adriat., 51(2): 217-222.

Boltachev, A.R., Karpova, E.P. and Danilyuk, O. N. 2009. Findings of new and rare fish species in the coastal zone of the Crimea (the Black Sea). J. Ichthyology, 49: 277-291.doi: 10.1134/S0032945209040018

Boltachev, A. and Karpova, E. 2012. Marine fish of Crimean Peninsula. Business-Inform, Simferopol, 224 pp.

Boltachev, A. and Karpova, E. 2014. Faunistic revision of alien fish species in the Black Sea. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions, 5(4): 225-241. doi: 10.1134/S2075111714040018

Brandl, S.J., Wagner, M., Hofrichter, R. and Patzner, R. 2012. First record of the clingfish Apletodon dentatus (Gobiesocidae) in the Adriatic Sea and a description of a simple method to collect clingfishes. Bulletin of Fish Biology, 13: 1-2.

Briggs, J.C. 1986. Gobiesocidae. In: P.J.P. Whitehead, M-L. Bauchot, J-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen, E. Tortonese (eds) Fishes of the Northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 3. UNESCO, Paris: 1351-1359

Bulgurkov, K. 1973. Meeting of Alpheus dentipes Guerin (Crustacea-Decapoda) on Bulgarian coast of Black Sea. Izv. of nauch.-study. fishery inst. 12:103-105. (In Bulgarian)

Chernyavskii, B. 1884. Coastal decapods Ponta. Proc. Kharkov. Islands of Naturalists, 13:262.

Colombo, M. and Langeneck, J. 2013. The importance of underwater photography in detecting cryptobenthic species: new in situ records of some gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Italian Seas with ecological notes. Acta. Adriat., 54(1):101-110.

Dolgopolskaya, M.A. 1948. Materials on the phenology of larval stages Decapoda. Proc. Sevastop. biol. Station, 6: 74-94. (In Russian)

Engin, S. and Dalgıç, G. 2008. First Record of Chromogobius Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 32(2): 197-199. (Gobiidae) for the

Engin, S., Turan, D. and Kovacic, M. 2007. First Record of the (Gobiidae), in the Black Sea. Cybrim, 31: 87-88.

Georgiev, J.M. 1961. An unknown goby for Bulgarian ichthiofauna-Relictogobius kryzanowskii. Izvestiya. Central. nauchnoizsled. Inst. ribov. and fishing, 1: 141-145.

Goncçalves, E.J., Barbosa, M., Cabral, H.N. and Henriques, M. 2002. Ontogenetic shifts in patterns of microhabitat utilization in the small-headed clingfish, Apletodon dentatus (Gobiesocidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 63: 333-339. doi: 10.1023/A:1014302319622

Hofrichter, R. and Patzner, R. 1997. A new species of Apletodon from the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic with notes on the differentiation between Apletodon and Diplecogaster species (Pisces: Teleostei: Gobiesociformes:

Gobiesocidae). 43 (4): 307-314. doi: 10.3750/

Kovtun, O.A. and Pronin, K.K. 2011. Morphological and biological characteristics of underwater caves Bungee (peninsula Tarkhankut, Small Atlesh). Caving and karstology, 6: 53-66. (In Russian).

Makarov, Y. 2004. Malacostraca. In: Y. Makarov, Fauna of Ukraine. Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 26(1-2):1-431.

Miller, P.J. 1986. Gobiidae. In: Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volume III. In: P.J.P. Whitehead (Ed.), UNESCO, Paris: 1019-1085.

Pashkov, A.N., Reshetnikov, S.I. and Makhrov, A.A. 2013. On the question of occurrence in the waters of the Krasnodar Territory Chestnut goby Chromogobius quadrivittatus Gobiidae). MSc thesis. Kerch: YugNIRO. 1863) (Pisces,

Pravdin, J.F. 1966. Study Guide fish. Moscow, Food Processing, 376 pp.

Rodin, V.E., Slizkin, A.G. and Myasoedov, V.I. 1979. Study Guide decapods Decapoda Far Eastern seas. Vladivostok, TINRO, 59 pp.

Sovinsky, V.K. 1882. By crustacean fauna of the Black Sea. 1. Some representatives of the family. Caridae, Zap. Kiev. Islands of Naturalists, 6:45-48.

Svetovidov, A.N. 1964. The Fishes of the Black Sea. Nauka Publ. Moscow-Leningrad, 550 pp. (In Russian).

Vanhove, M.P.M., Kovacic, M., Koutsikos, N.E., Zogaris, S., Vardakas, L.E., Huyse, T. and Economou, A.N. 2011. First record of a landlocked population of marine Millerigobius macrocephalus (Perciformes: Gobiidae): Observations from a unique spring-fed karstic lake (Lake Vouliagmeni, Greece) and phylogenetic positioning. Zoologischer Anzeiger 250:195-204.

Vasil'eva, E.D. and Bogorodsky, S.V. 2004. Two new species of gobies (Gobiidae) in the ichthyofauna of the Black Sea. Journal of Ichthyology, 44:599-606.

Vassilev, M., Apostolou, A., Velkov, B., Dobrev, D., Zarev, V. 2012. Atlas of the gobies (Gobiidae) in Bulgaria. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, 112 pp.