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Check-list for Caspian Sea Cumaceans

by Stella Vasilenko and Damia Jaume

 

 

Family

Species

Year and Author

Origin

Relative magnitude

Status

Distribution areas

Data of the last study done

1.

Pseudocumatidae

Schizorhampus bilamellatus

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Caspian

Sometimes abundant

Euryhaline,
S=0-13‰
Mud, sand, muddy-sand
Depth 1.5-31m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); lower flow, mouth of rivers of the Volga, Kura, Samur)

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1992;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989, 1993

 2.

 

Sch. eudorelloides

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Ponto-Caspian

Abundant (up to 32500ind./1m?).
Important food object of fish.

Euryhaline,
S=0-13‰
Mud, sand, muddy-sand
Depth 2.0–700m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); Black Sea, Sea of Azov (lower flow, mouth of rivers of the Volga, Kura, Dnieper, Dnestr, Don, Danube).

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969; 1992;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989.

 3.

 

Sch. knipowitchi

(Derzhavin, 1912)

Caspian

Rare

Euryhaline,
Mud
Depth 1.5-2.5m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south), mouth of the Volga, Samur, Umsu –Chai, Dzhangichan)

Derzhavin, 1912;
Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

 4.

 

Sch. scabriusculus

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Ponto-Caspian

Common

Euryhaline,
S=2-13‰
Mud, sand
Depth 1.0–21m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south), Black Sea, Sea of Azov (estuaries of rivers of Ural, Volga, Don, Dnieper, Bug, Dnester, Danube, estuary Roselm).

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969; 1992;
Tarverdiev, 1989, 1993.

 5.

 

Pterocuma grandis

G.O.Sars, 1914

Caspian

Rare

Stenohaline
S=8-13‰
Mud, sandy-mud with shell
Depth 50-200m

Caspian Sea (middle, south)

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1993.

 6.

 

Pt. pectinata

(Sowinsky, 1893)

Ponto-Caspian

Common Abundant (up to 79000 ind/1m?).

Euryhaline,
S=0-13‰, mainly 3-8‰ Sand, sandy-mud, mud
Depth 1.5–50m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south), Black Sea, Sea of Azov; lower flow of the Volga, Kura; mouth Don, Dnieper, estuary Dnestr, Bug, Danube, Paselm

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989, 1993.

7.

 

Pt. rostrata

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Ponto-Caspian

Common

Euryhaline,
S=2-13‰
Muddy-sand, mud, shelly-sand
Depth 10–100m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south), Sea of Azov, Black Sea; mouth of the Volga, Kura, Samur, Umsu –Chai, Dzhangichan; lower flow of the Don, Dnieper, Bug, Dniestr, Danube, estuary

of Dniestr

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989, 1993.

8.

 

Pt. sowinskyi

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Ponto-Caspian

Common Abundant. (up to 825 ind/m?)
Important food object of fish.

Euryhaline
S=0-13‰
Sand, sandy-mud, mud
Depth 1.5–25m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); Sea of Azov; mouth of riversVolga, Ural, Emba, Samur, Kura, Protoka, Don, Kuban.

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989, 1993.

9.

 

Stenocuma

cercaroides

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Ponto-Caspian

Common

Euryhaline
Mud, muddy-sand;
Depth 0.5-9m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); Sea of Azov; Black Sea; lower flow of Volga,. Don; Dnieper, Bug, Dnestr, Danube. Is acclimatized in pond/pool of Dnieprov

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969.

10.

 

St. diastyloides

(G.O.Sars, 1897)

Caspian

Common
Sometimes abundant

Stenohaline
S=8-13‰
Mud, sand, sandy-mud, shelly-sand
Depth 19–170m

In the different part of the Caspian Sea

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989, 1993.

11.

 

St. gracilis

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Caspian

Common
Sometimes abundant

Euryhaline
S=2-13‰
Mud, shelly-sand,
Depth 1.5–50m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south).

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989, 1993.

12.

 

St. graciloides

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Ponto-Caspian

Common
Sometimes abundant

Euryhaline
S=0-13‰
mainly 3-8‰
Mud, muddy-sand, sand
Depth 0.5–48m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); Sea of Azov; Black Sea; lower flow of Volga,. Don; Dnieper, Bug, Dnestr, Danube.

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1989, 1993.

13.

 

St. laevis

(G.O.Sars, 1914)

Ponto-Caspian

Rare
Sometimes abundant (up to 1000ind/ m?)

S=1-6‰
Sand,shelly-sand
Depth 1.0-9.0m

North-west part of the Caspian Sea, Black Sea (estuary Danube, Roselm)

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1951, 1969

14.

 

St. tenuicauda

(G.O.Sars, 1894)

Ponto-Caspian

Common
Sometimes abundant (up to 1640 ind/m?)

S=0-6‰
Sand, muddy-sand
Depth 1 – 50m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); Sea of Azov. Estuary of Don, Dnieper, Bug

Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969.

15.

 

Volgocuma telmatophora

Derzhavin 1912

Ponto-Caspian

Less numerous

Euryhaline
S=0-13‰
Sand, muddy-sand
Depth 1 – 7.0m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); Sea of Azov; Black Sea; lower flow of Volga, Don; estuary Dnieprovo-Bugski, Dnestrovski

Derzhavin, 1912;
Lomakina, 1968;
Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969;
Tarverdiev, 1989, 1993.

16.

 

Carinocuma birsteini

Mordukhai-boltovskoi & Romanova, 1973

Caspian

Common

Stenohaline
S=8-13‰
Mud, mudd-sand with shelly
Depth 40-110m

Caspian Sea (south, middle)

Mordukhai-boltovskoi & Romanova, 1973;
Tarverdiev, 1988, 1993.

17.

 

Hyrcanocuma sarsi

Derzhavin, 1912

Caspian

Rare

Mud,
Depth – 16m

Caspian Sea, (near peninsula Mangishlak)

Lomakina, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969;
Tarverdiev, 1993.

18.

 

Caspiocuma campylaspoides

(Sars, 1897)

Ponto-Caspian

Common

Euryhaline
S=0-13‰
Muddy-sand
Depth 1.0-31m

Caspian Sea (north, middle, south); Sea of Azov; Black Sea; lower flow of Volga, mouth Ural, Terek, Don; Kara-Bogas-Gol strait, Taganrog Bay, estuaries Dneprovo-Bugski, Dnestrovski

Lomakina, 1968;
Bacescu, 1969;
Tarverdiev, 1993.