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Check-list for Caspian Sea mysids (opossum shrimps)

by Victor Petryashev (malacostraca@zin.ru) and Mikhail Daneliya

 

 

Family

Species

Year and Author

Origin

Relative magnitude

Status

Distribution areas

Data of the last study done

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

 1. 

Mysidae

Hemimysis anomala

G.O. Sars, 1907

Ponto-Caspian, introduced in the North and Baltic Seas

Less numerous

Firm grounds and clay, 1.5 – 40 m.

Eastern coast of Middle, South Caspian, lower flow of the Volga, Don, Dnieper, Dniester, Danube Rivers, the Sea of Azov, Black, Baltic, North Seas.

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969; Salemaa and Hietalahti, 1993, Daneliya, 2002a

 2. 

 

Mysis caspia

G.O. Sars, 1895

Caspian

Ordinary

Epibenthic and pelagic, 38 – 390 m.

Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

 3. 

 

M. macrolepis

G.O. Sars, 1907

Caspian

Less numerous

Pelagic, 200 – 300 m, more often 250 – 300 m.

Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

 4. 

 

M. microphthalma

G.O. Sars, 1895

Caspian

Ordinary

Pelagic, 50 – 750 m , more often 138 – 390 m.

Middle, South Caspian

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

 5. 

 

M. amblyops

G.O. Sars, 1907

Caspian

Ordinary

Pelagic, 50 –750 m.

Middle, South Caspian

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

 6. 

 

Schistomysis elegans

G.O. Sars, 1907

Caspian

Ordinary

Firm grounds, sand, 9 – 56 m.

Eastern coast of Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

 7. 

 

Paramysis (Paramysis) baeri

Czerniavsky, 1882.

Caspian

Ordinary

Sand, rarely with silt, 5 – 20 m.

North, Middle, South Caspian, Ural River

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969, Daneliya, 2004.

 8. 

 

P.(P.) kessleri

G.O. Sars, 1895

Ponto-Caspian

Ordinary

Silt, sand, 1 – 114 m.

North, Middle, South Caspian; lower flow of Danube, South Bug, Dniester, Dnieper Rivers.

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969, Daneliya, 2004.

 9. 

 

P.(P.) eurylepis

G.O. Sars, 1907

Caspian

Less numerous

Firm grounds, sand, 10 – 114 m.

Middle Caspian

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968 Daneliya, 2004.

10. 

 

P.(Metamysis) ullskyi

Czerniavsky, 1882

Ponto-Caspian

Ordinary

Sand, rarer silt, clay, 0.5 – 15 m.

North, rarer Middle, South Caspian, the Volga, Oka, Kama, Ural Rivers; Sea of Azov, the Don River, lower flow of the Danube, South Bug, Dniestr, Dnieper Rivers.

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969, Daneliya, 2002a, 2004.

11. 

 

P.(M.) grimmi

G.O. Sars, 1895

Caspian

Ordinary

Silt, rarer sand, 10 – 185 m, more often 30 – 80 m.

Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968, Daneliya, 2004.

12. 

 

P.(M.) inflata

G.O. Sars, 1907

Caspian

Less numerous

Firm grounds with sand and silt, 10 – 80 m, more often 20 – 60 m.

South part of North, Middle Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968, Daneliya, 2004.

13. 

 

P.(Serrapalpisis) lacustris

(Czerniavsky, 1882)

Ponto-Caspian, introduced in the Baltic Sea, Aral Sea, Lake Issyk-Kul.

Ordinary

Sand, silt, often with plants, rarer firm grounds, 0.5 – 6 m.

North, rarer Middle, South Caspian, lower flow and mouths of the Caspian basin rivers, the Sea of Azov, lower flow of the Black and Azov Sea basin rivers, Lakes Abrau, Paleostomi, Beishehir (Turkey), introduced in the Baltic Sea (Kuronian Bay).

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969, Daneliya, 2002a, 2004.

14. 

 

P.(S.) sowinskii

Daneliya, 2002

Ponto-Caspian

Less numerous

Silt, sand, 1 – 15 m.

West coast of Middle Caspian, The Sea of Azov, lower flow of the Don River.

Daneliya, 2002a, b, 2004.

15. 

 

P.(S.) incerta

G.O. Sars, 1895

Caspian

Ordinary

Firm grounds, sand, silt, 5 – 94 m, oftener 10 – 40 m.

South part of North, Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968, Daneliya, 2004.

16. 

 

P.(Nanoparamysis) loxolepis

(G.O. Sars, 1895)

Caspian

Ordinary

Silt, 5 – 750 m, more often 20 – 150 m.

Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968, Daneliya, 2004.

17. 

 

P.(Mesomysis) intermedia

(Czerniavsky, 1882)

Ponto-Caspian

Ordinary

Sand, rarer silt, 1 – 18 m, oftener 1 – 5 m.

North, rarer Middle, South Caspian, lower flow of the Volga, Ural Rivers; Sea of Azov, lower flow of the Black and Azov Sea basin rivers.

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969, Daneliya, 2002a, 2004.

18. 

 

Caspiomysis knipowitschi

G.O. Sars, 1907

Caspian

Numerous

Firm grounds, rarer sand, silt, 8 – 96 m, more often 10 – 40 m.

South part of North, Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

19. 

 

Katamysis warpachowskyi

G.O. Sars, 1893

Ponto-Caspian

Numerous

Firm grounds, sand, rarer silt, 1 – 35 m, oftener 1 – 10 m.

North, Middle, South Caspian, the Volga River Delta; lower flow of the Danube, Dniester, Dnieper, Don Rivers.

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969, Daneliya, 2001a,b.

20. 

 

Diamysis pusilla

G.O. Sars, 1907

Caspian

Less numerous

Firm grounds, sand, 10 – 31 m.

Eastern coast of Middle, South Caspian.

Derzhavin, 1939; Atlas of Caspian Sea Invertebrates, 1968.

21. 

 

Limnomysis benedeni

Czerniavsky, 1882

Ponto-Caspian, introduced in the upper Danube River, in the Rhine River, in the Balaton Lake and some Ukrainian lakes, Aral Sea.

Ordinary

Firm grounds, sand, rarer silt, often with algae and freshwater plants, 0.5 – 68 m, oftener 0.5 – 10 m.

North, Middle, South Caspian, lower flow, mouths of the rivers and lakes of the Caspian basin, the Sea of Azov, north part of the Black Sea, lower flow of the Black and Azov Sea basin rivers, introduced in the upper Danube River, in the Rhine River, in the Balaton Lake and some Ukrainian lakes, Aral Sea.

Derzhavin, 1939; Bacescu, 1969, Daneliya, 2001b, 2002a.