List of issues > Series «Biology. Ecology». 2013. Vol. 2
Biology of the coastal zone of Lake Baikal. Part 4. Taxonomic diversity of the benthic fauna in the splash zone of Lake Baikal (in the vicinity of Berezovy Cape – Bol’shye Koty Bay)
In the present work we report on the results of complex faunistic investigations of benthic organisms inhabiting the splash zone of Baikal (south-eastern part of the lake near Cape Berezovy – Bolshye Koty Bay). A taxonomic list of cladocerans and ostracods is compiled for first time. Some new data are acquired on the species composition of turbellarians, nematodes, rotifers, copepods, chironomids and tardigrades. The largest species diversity was recorded in rotifers (24), nematodes (15), cyclopes (11) and chironomids (11). Most of them are typical dwellers of the near-shore area, but only in this zone we encountered psammophiles, the life cycles of which occur only in the splash zone. These animals are: 3 nematode, 2 turbellarian, 2 cyclop, 1 rotifer and, 1 tardigrade species. For the first time we found some species in the splash zone that were not registered in Baikal before.