The history of study, the taxonomic composition and the origin of the sea anemone fauna of the Kara Sea (Actiniaria, Anthozoa, Cnidaria)

N.Yu. Ivanova and S.D. Grebelnyi

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2021, 325(2): 156–182 · https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2021.325.2.156

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Abstract

Based on the study of new collection material and literature data, the composition of the sea anemone fauna of the Kara Sea is described. It includes 13 species of 7 families. Among them are 10 species that have previously been known for this region: Urticina crassicornis (O.F. Muller, 1776), Aulactinia stella (Verrill, 1864), Hormathia digitata (O.F. Muller, 1776), Allantactis parasitica Danielssen, 1890, Actinostola callosa (Verrill, 1882), A. spetsbergensis (Carlgren, 1893), Anthosactis janmayeni Danielssen, 1890, Halcampa arctica Carlgren, 1893, Edwardsia arctica Carlgren, 1921, Ptychodactis patula Appellof, 1893, and 3 species reported for the Kara Sea for the first time: Cactosoma abyssorum Danielssen, 1890, Haliactis arctica Carlgren, 1921, and Edwardsia vitrea Danielssen, 1890. The ranges of the species are described. A detailed consideration of the species’ geographical distribution, determined by the temperature, depth and salinity, allows the anemones to be subdivided into 3 groups: a) inhabiting the shelf and associated with high salinity; b) eurybathic, associated with the high latitudes, high salinity and a narrow interval of low temperatures; c) the most widespread, withstanding desalination and low temperatures. The geographic ranges of epibenthic polyps of the infraorder Thenaria have now been thoroughly studied, but the distribution of the representatives of the infraorder Athenaria in Arctic is known only from several finds. The distribution of the only Arctic representative of the suborder Ptychodacteae, Ptychodactis patula, is known from a fairly large number of finds, but its habitat requirements are little known. Therefore, our reasoning about the sources of the formation of the Kara Sea fauna is based mainly on the data derived from the thenarians. Our analysis has confirmed the participation of the species of Atlantic origin, most resistant to low temperatures, in the formation of the Kara Sea fauna, but no convincing evidence has been found for the participation of Pacific elements in the settlement of this region.

Key words

Actiniaria, Arctic, depth, geographical distribution, Kara Sea, salinity, sea anemones, systematics, temperature

Submitted March 1, 2021 · Accepted May 9, 2021 · Published June 25, 2021

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