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Journal article

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Biodiversity of meiobenthic free-living nematodes of the southern Baltic Sea – Preliminary results of the community composition and structure in sandy sediments of Puck Bay

Abstract

This is the first attempt to assess the composition of meiobenthic free-living nematodes of Puck Bay, a large oligohaline water area in the southern Baltic Sea. Nematodes were studied from three stations (3–8 m water depths) in April and September 2011. The material consisted of 4164 nematode specimens identified in total to 37 genera with three multi-species genera and 44 putative species. The majority of the species are typical members of estuarine and brackish waters and have previously been recorded from the Baltic Sea. Hypodontolaimus setosus, Calomicrolaimus cf. honestus, Eleutherolaimus sabulicolus, Paracanthonchus spp., Viscosia viscosa, Gammanema sp. and Chitwoodia spp. were the numerically dominant taxa. The number of species recorded here is among the highest reported from the Baltic and constitutes a large proportion (25%) of the total set of species known to date from the Baltic Sea.

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https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000359442900010

Bibliographic citation

Urban-Malinga, B. (2015). Biodiversity of meiobenthic free-living nematodes of the southern Baltic Sea – Preliminary results of the community composition and structure in sandy sediments of Puck Bay. Mar. Biol. Res. 11(8): 887-892. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2015.1041530

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Marine

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