A new species of Cymbasoma (Copepoda, Monstrilloida) from the northern coast of Turkey (Black Sea) with comments on the C. longispinosum species-group

Cymbasoma sinopense sp. nov. is described from an adult female collected off the Sinop coast, in the southern Black Sea, Turkey. This is the first species of this genus recorded from the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The new species is a member of the widespread Cymbasoma longispinosum species-group, and it closely resembles C. chelemense Suárez-Morales & Escamilla, 1997 from the Yucatan Peninsula and C. californiense Suárez-Morales & Palomares-García, 1999 from the Gulf of California. This species can be distinguished by a combination of subtle characters, including the body proportions, the structure and armature of the fifth legs, the ornamentation of the genital somite, and the relative length of the ovigerous spines. A previous report of C. longispinosum from the northern Black Sea probably represented a misidentified record of C. sinopense sp. nov. The Mediterranean reports refer to a species that is different from the one of the Black Sea. Comparative comments and data including the main taxonomic characters of members of the Cymbasoma longispinosum species-group are presented. Overall, it is confirmed that records of this species from different geographic areas should be revised carefully because they could represent undescribed species. A key for the identification of the females of the currently known species assigned to the Cymbasoma longispinosum species-group is included.

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Nephtyidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, with descriptions of two new species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.5060.2.2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5060 (2) ◽

pp. 33-64

Author(s):

SEVGI KUŞ ◽

GÜLEY KURT ◽

MELIH ERTAN ÇINAR

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Body Size ◽

Black Sea ◽

The Body ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Sea Of Marmara ◽

Marine Fauna ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

Two New Species ◽

Sea Coast

The present paper deals with the diversity of nephtyid polychaetes (Nephtyidae) from the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Three species belonging to two genera (Micronephthys and Nephtys) were found in the Black Sea (coast of Turkey) and six species belonging to three genera (Inermonephtys, Micronephthys and Nephtys) were found in the Sea of Marmara. The material includes two species new to science, Inermonephtys turcica n. sp. and Nephtys sinopensis n. sp., and a species record (Nephtys kersivalensis McIntosh, 1908) new to the Sea of Marmara’s marine fauna. Nephtys sinopensis n. sp. is mainly characterized by having 1–4 geniculate chaetae in the postacicular position of the parapodia; digitiform antennae, palps, and ventral cirri at chaetiger 1 with swollen tips; small and cirriform branchiae present from chaetiger 4 to the end of the body; poorly developed parapodial prechaetal lamellae in median and posterior chaetigers and long ventral cirri along the body. Inermonephtys turcica n. sp. is mainly characterized by having cushion-like palps with digitiform tips; well developed neuropodial postchaetal lamellae; barred chaetae in preacicular position of the anterior and median parapodia; and branchiae first appearing between chaetiger 3 and 13 (depending on body size).

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A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini) from the West Caucasus

Zoosystematica Rossica ◽

10.31610/zsr/2011.20.1.48 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 48-53

Author(s):

I.A. Belousov ◽

A.G. Koval

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Black Sea ◽

Life Form ◽

Intermediate Position ◽

The Black Sea ◽

The West ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

A New Species ◽

Sea Coast

A new species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928, C. maximovitchi sp. nov., is described from the Akhunskaya Cave and Labirintovaya Cave, both located in the Akhun Karst Massif on the Black Sea Coast of the West Caucasus (Krasnodar Territory, Russia). The new species is rather isolated within the genus Cimmerites and occupies an intermediate position between species related to C. kryzhanovskii Belousov, 1998 and species close to C. vagabundus Belousov, 1998. Though both C. maximovitchi sp. nov. and C. kryzhanovskii are still known only from caves, these species are quite similar in their life form to other members of the genus which are all true endogean species.

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Wardium Ponticum Sp. N. (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Hymenolepidoidea), a Parasite of Pratincole (Glareola Pratincola) from the Black Sea Coast

Vestnik Zoologii ◽

10.2478/v10058-012-0009-x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. e-1-e-6

Author(s):

V. Kornyushin ◽

B. Georgiev ◽

O. Greben

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Black Sea ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Congeneric Species ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

Sea Coast

Wardium PonticumSp. N. (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Hymenolepidoidea), a Parasite of Pratincole (Glareola Pratincola) from the Black Sea CoastThe new speciesWardium ponticumKornyushin, Georgiev et Greben, sp. n. (Aploparksidae Mayhew, 1925) parasitic in pratincole (Glareola pratincolaLinnaeus, 1766) from Bulgaria and Ukraine is described. The species is characterized by 10 aploparaksoid hooks, 9-10 mm long, and clearly differs from all congeneric species by the shape and armament of the cirrus.

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Architecture of One-Apsidal Churches of North Black Sea Coast VI-XII c.

Materials Science Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.931.790 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 931 ◽

pp. 790-796

Author(s):

Viktoria V. Pishchulina

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Byzantine Empire ◽

Black Sea Region ◽

The North ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

The Crimea ◽

The One ◽

Sea Coast

A one-apsidal hall church is always a reflection of so-called “vulgar” Christianity, thus revealing the important peculiarities of the spatial culture of the region where it is erected. In this region we can mark two periods when such temples were built: VI-VII c. and X-XII c. The first period is associated with the missionary activity by Byzantine Empire, Antioch, Caucasian Albania which was conditioned by both geopolitical interests (Byzantian Empire, Antioch) and the shift of The Great Silk Way to the north (Caucasian Albania). The second, as the research has shown, is connected with the migration of the peoples of Abkhazia, the abzakhs to this territory in the XII-XIII c. and the development of contacts with the Crimea. In the North Black Sea Region the one-apsidal hall church appears as early as in the VI c. – in the territory of Abkhazia we know about ten such temples. The temples of this type in the area of Big Sochi are dated back to the VII-VIII c. In the first Abhzaian temples we can reveal the influence of denominational centers – Byzantian Empire, Antioch, Caucasian Albania. In the temples of the Black Sea coast of both periods – introduction of the samples from Abkhazia.

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Taxonomic contribution to the genus Sphaerosyllis (Annelida: Syllidae: Exogoninae) in the Black Sea

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4329.3.6 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4329 (3) ◽

pp. 281

Author(s):

VICTOR SURUGIU ◽

GUILLERMO SAN MARTÍN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Shallow Water ◽

Black Sea ◽

New Record ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Fibrillar Material ◽

Unknown Species ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

Sea Coast

During a study of fauna associated with a shallow-water Zostera (Zosterella) noltei bed from the southern part of the Romanian Black Sea coast, among the identified material collected in 2015, a syllid polychaete belonging to the subfamily Exogoninae, Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins, 1981, represents a new record for the Black Sea. Re-examination of available specimens previously identified as Sphaerosyllis bulbosa Southern, 1914 revealed that they belong to an unknown species, described herein as Sphaerosyllis pontica sp. nov. The new species is characterized by the median antenna inserted more posteriorly than the lateral antennae, dorsal cirri with bulbous bases and very short tips, shorter than the parapodial lobes, dorsal cirri absent on chaetiger 2, parapodial glands with fibrillar material from chaetiger 4 onwards, compound chaetae with short blades and smooth shafts, anterior parapodia with two aciculae each, one straight and one with bent tip. Descriptions of both species are provided together with a key to all Sphaerosyllis species known from the Black Sea.

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First finding of Greeffiella Cobb, 1922 (Nematoda, Desmoscolecida) in the Black Sea

Ecologica Montenegrina ◽

10.37828/em.2021.42.5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 96-102

Author(s):

Nelly G. Sergeeva ◽

Tatiana N. Revkova

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Black Sea ◽

Fine Sand ◽

The Body ◽

The Other ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Short Esophagus ◽

First Finding ◽

Northwestern Shelf ◽

A New Species

The first finding of the genus Greeffiella Cobb 1922 (Greeffiellinae, Desmoscolecidae) in the Black Sea is presented. Two mature females were collected in Northwestern Shelf of Crimea in strongly silted fine sand with detritus at a water depth of 56 m. Greeffiella sp. is described and illustrated. The absence of males in the collections does not allow the authors to present it as a new species for science or to identify it as one of the known species of the genus Greeffiella. Black sea specimen is distinguished from the other known species of the genus Greeffiella with the presence of 8 pairs of thicker specific setae along the body, the basis of which looks like a small lamina, but without hairs, which was previously described for G. pierri Schrage & Gerlach, 1975 and G. australis Schrage & Gerlach, 1975. The short esophagus at the base has two salivary glands and a cardia. Cardia has not been mentioned before for the known species of the genus Greeffiella.

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Trichodinid ciliates from fishes of the Rumanian Black Sea coast

Parasitology ◽

10.1017/s0031182000023982 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 52 (1-2) ◽

pp. 49-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Jiří Lom

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Black Sea ◽

Fish Species ◽

Gasterosteus Aculeatus ◽

Mugil Cephalus ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Separate Paper ◽

Short Survey ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

Sea Coast

Representatives of a total of twenty fish species, most of them marine, from the Black Sea coast in Rumania were investigated. Of these, ten species were found to harbour ectoparasitic trichodinids on their skin and gills. Three of them, Trichodina rectuncinata Raabe, 1959, from Gaidropsis mediterranaeus and Crenilabrus griseus, T. caspialosae (Dogiel, 1940) mihi from Alosa braschnikowi meotica and T. d. f. latispina from Gasterosteus aculeatus, were already known.Three species could be established as new ones: T. puytoraci sp.nov. from Mugil auratus, M. cephalus and M. saliens, T. raabei sp.nov. from Pleuronectes flesus and T. lepsii sp.nov. from M. auratus. They are clearly differentiated from other species.The following trichodinids were provisionally classified as forms (including one new one) of T. domerguei, thus enlarging this most complicated Trichodina species: T. domerguei, cf. latispina from Gobius syrman, T. domerguei f.n. maris-negri from Gaidropsis mediterranaeus, and T. domerguei f. partidisci from Mugil cephalus. Other populations of T. domerguei could not be properly classified because of lack of material.The description of the new species of Tripartiella which have been mentioned in the introduction, will be given in a separate paper.A short survey on marine trichodinids recorded up to the present is given.

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Two new species of free-living nematodes genera Microlaimus de Man, 1880 and Aponema Jensen, 1978 (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) from the Black Sea

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4344.2.13 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4344 (2) ◽

pp. 387 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

TATIANA N. REVKOVA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Black Sea ◽

The Body ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Head Region ◽

Free Living ◽

Pharyngeal Bulb ◽

The Family ◽

Two New Species ◽

De Man

Two new species of the family Microlaimidae Micoletzky, 1922 are described and illustrated from the Black Sea. Aponema pontica sp. n. is morphologically closest to A. torosum in the shape of the body and spicules, size of amphids, but differs in having small and triangular cardia, absence of constriction in head region, shape of gubernaculum apophyses, rounded and weakly sclerotised lumen of pharyngeal bulb and longer spicules. Microlaimus paraglobiceps sp. n. morphologically resembles M. globiceps de Man, 1880 in the shape of the body, structure of the male sexual organs and presence of precloacal pore, but the main difference is a shorter body, cuticle finely annulated all over the body and absence of sexual dimorphism in the size of amphideal fovea.

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Two new species of deep-water Caprella (Peracarida, Amphipoda, Caprellidae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico collected during the TALUD XIV cruise, with a checklist of species of Caprellidae recorded for the eastern Pacific

Crustaceana ◽

10.1163/15685403-00003277 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 87 (1) ◽

pp. 41-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michel E. Hendrickx ◽

Manuel Ayón-Parente

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Deep Water ◽

Gulf Of California ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Relative Length ◽

The Body ◽

Eastern Pacific ◽

General Shape ◽

Lateral Projection ◽

Deep Water Species

Two new deep-water species of the genus Caprella are described from the central Gulf of California, Pacific coast of Mexico. Caprella calderoni new species is distinguished from the 32 previously recorded species of Caprella from the eastern Pacific by its smooth forehead and pereonites, body not particularly slender, gnathopod 2 inserted at about mid-length of the second pereonite, elongated gills and gnathopod 1, the relative length of antenna 2 articles, length of the flagellum of antenna 1, the lack of an antero-lateral projection on pereonites 2 and 3, and the length-height proportion of pereonite 1. It is close to C. striata Mayer, 1903, recorded from Alaska. Caprella striata, however, features a different number of articles in the antenna 1 flagellum, two latero-posterior spines on pereonites 6, a small dorsal tubercle on pereonites 5 and 6, and a poison spine on the propodus of gnathopod 2 (all lacking in the new species). The buccal appendages also present significant differences. Caprella mercedesae new species, belongs to a group of eastern Pacific species with a sharp spine on the forehead. It is distinguished from all these species by a combination of characters, including the general shape of the body (not robust), the insertion level of gnathopod 2, its general shape, and the relative length of its dactylus, the relative length of antennae 1 and 2, the shape and relative length of the gills, the proportionally shorter or longer pereonites, and the presence of dorsal tubercles on at least pereonites 5-7 (absent in the new species).

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