New Species of Bottom Macroinvertebrates for the Fauna of Kalmykia


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Abstract

A list of 17 species of bottom macroinvertebrates that are recorded in water bodies of Kalmykia for the first time is presented: six chironomid species, four mollusk species, three oligochaete species, one short-palped cranefly species, one dragonfly species, one horsefly species, and one biting midge species. The location of these species and their ecological and faunistic characteristic are given. All identified species are generally widespread in Russia.

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G. Kh. Shcherbina

Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: gregory@ibiw.yaroslavl.ru
Russian Federation, Borok, Nekouzskii raion, Yaroslavl oblast, 152742

E. V. Nikitenko

Otradnoe Lyceum

Email: gregory@ibiw.yaroslavl.ru
Russian Federation, Otradnoe, 187330

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