Clarification of the morphology of the amphipod Echinogammarus foxi (Schellenberg, 1928) (Gammaridae, Amphipoda) from the Black Sea (Sevastopol, Crimea)
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Abstract
In coastal waters of the Black Sea (without estuaries, breakwaters lagoons and Turkey coastal waters) known three species from genus Echinogammarus Stebbing, 1899: Echinogammarus foxi (Schellenberg, 1928) [Grintsov, Sezgin, 2011], Echinogammarus ischnus (Stebbing, 1899) [Грезе, 1977; Грезе, 1985] and Echinogammarus karadagiensis Grintsov, 2009 [Grintsov, 2009]. Morphological description of two species: E. ischnus and E. karadagiensis from the Black Sea given [Грезе, 1985; Grintsov, 2009]. For species E. foxi, living in the Black Sea, morphological description is missing. At the same time, such a description is necessary to confirm the presence of this species in the Black Sea, biological, ecological investigations and investigations of biodiversity or structure of communities. In this work, give detailed morphological description and SEM-photos of adult male and female E. foxi. A comparative analysis of E. foxi with the species E. ischnus and E. karadagiensis is given.
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