Diversity of Fauna in Crimean Hypersaline Water Bodies
Journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University Biology
Year: 2018

On the Crimean peninsula, there are more than 50 hypersaline water bodies, including the Sivash (the Sea of Azov), the largest hypersaline lagoon in the world. Based on the literature and our own long-term research data (2000-2017), a review of the fauna of the hypersaline waters in the Crimea is presented, including 298 species of animals belonging to 8 phyla, 14 classes and 27 orders. The variety of phyla and classes within a particular range of salinity was shown to decrease significantly wit