Harpacticoida

Sergeeva, Nelli G. & Mazlumyan, Sofia A., 2015, Deep - water hypoxic meiobenthic Protozoa and Metazoa taxa of the Istanbul Strait’s (Bosporus) outlet area of the Black Sea, Ecologica Montenegrina 2 (3), pp. 255-270 : 266-267

2.3. Harpacticoida

In the near-Bosporus area on the 82 m water depth there was new record of the species. Among harpacticoides from this region, there were several eurybathic species, known for the Black Sea , widespread on sandy and silty-sandy soils in the depth range of 10–150 m off the coast of the Caucasus, the Crimea and the coast of Bulgaria and Romania ( Kolesnikova 2003, 2010). An the Bosporus outlet area at the 82 m water depth new species Sarsameira parva (Boeck) and Tachidiella minuta (Sars) were found in the Black Sea ( Kolesnikova & Sergeeva 2011) .

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at the In the Bosporus area Harpacticoida were registered from 0–1 to 4–5 cm layers in the column of the bottom sediment. The upper layers (0–2 cm) of sediments are the most habitable at all depths up to 300 m ( Fig. 16 ).

0-1 cm 1-2 cm 2-3 cm 3-4 cm 4-5 cm Depth (m)

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Figure 16. Proportion of the harpacticoids inhabiting different sediment layers along the depth gradient.