Macrobenthos of the intertidal zone in the Gizhiginskaya Guba and Yamskaya Guba (Shelikhov Bay, Okhotsk Sea)

• Published in: Izvestiya TINRO
• Main Authors: Maria B. Ivanova, Alexandra P. Tsurpalo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Transactions of the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography 2015
• Subjects: макробентос; сообщества; литораль; гижигинская губа; ямская губа; охотское море; Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling; SH1-691; Flat Rocks; Gizhiginskaya Guba; Okhotsk; Palana; Yamskaya Guba; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2015-182-144-161; https://doaj.org/article/309c4fb0c0c04c48b19988863e0bbc23

The intertidal zone of the Gizhiginskaya Guba and Yamskaya Guba inlets located in the Shelikhov Bay is surveyed and 179 species are found in its macrobenthos (66 plants and 113 animals). They form 25 communities, including 7 ones on soft bottom sediments, 12 - on hard substrates, and 6 transitional (mixed) communities. The community of Lyonsia cucumerina is endemic of the Shelikhov Bay, it occupies the mixed substrate, namely flat rocks covered with silty sand that occur in the Gizhiginskaya Guba and at Ust’-Palana.