Caspian Sea Biodiversity Project under umbrella of Caspian Sea Environment Program

Type - Cnidaria
Class - Hydrozoa

Order – Hydrida
Family Hydridae

Hydra sp.

Freshwater

?

Facultative distributed

Coastal zone of Caspian

?

Naumov, 1969

Order Anthomedusae
Family. Clavidae

Cordylophora caspia

(Pallas, 1771)

Autochthonous Caspian

Cosmopolite
0-180 m,
Optimal-20m

North, Middle and South Caspian

Azerbaijan

Atlas of Caspian Sea invertebrates, 1968.

Naumov, 1969

Family Bougainvilidae

Garveia franciscana

(=Bougainvillia megas)

(Torrey, 1902)

(Kinne, 1956)

Ponto-Caspian invader
Autochthonous

Cosmopolite
Biofouling of ships and port installations
Shallow waters, 8-15‰

North Caspian

Azerbaijan

Atlas of Caspian Sea invertebrates, 1968.

Stepanjants & Vervoort,2004;

Bouillon et al., 2004

Family Moerissiidae

Moerisia pallasi

(Derzhavin, 1912)

Autochthonous

Caspian Endemic
On substrate to 30m

North Caspian

Azerbaijan

Atlas of Caspian Sea invertebrates, 1968.

Naumov, 1969

Odessia maeotica = Moerisia maeotica

(Ostroumoff, 1896)

Ponto-Caspian invader
Autochthonous

Cosmopolite
In desalinated shallow sites of sea

North Caspian

Azerbaijan

Atlas of Caspian Sea invertebrates, 1968.

Bouillon et al., 2004

Family Blackfordiidae

Blackfordia viriginica

Mayer, 1910

Ponto-Caspian invader
Autochthonous

Biofouling
Salinity-3-18 ‰,
Optimal 3-8 ‰

North, Middle and South Caspian

Atlas of Caspian Sea invertebrates, 1968.

Bouillon et al., 2004

Class Polypodiozoa

Family Polypodiidae

Polypodium hydriforme

Ussov, 1885

Freshwater basins of Azov, Black Sea and Caspian Sea

Parasite of the eggs of acipenseriform fishes

????

Raikova, 1994;

Bouillon et al., 2004