Species composition of seaweeds of the coastal zone of the Murmansk coast and archipelago Novaya Zemlya
2018
Evseeva, N.V.
The revision of the herbarium of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), which includes expeditionary collections of seaweed from the coastal zone of the Barents Sea and Novaya Zemlya, and research of own herbarium material, made it possible to specify and supplement the species composition of the macrophytobenthos of the Murmansk coast and the Novaya Zemlya. The check-list of marine algae of the Barents Sea records 223 species. Among them 88 species belong to class Phaeophyceae, 46 — to Chlorophyta and 89 — to Rhodophyta. 5 species — Sphacelaria rigidula, Acrochaetium microscopicum, Melobesia membranacea, Meiodiscus concrescens, Rhodomela tenuissima — are new for the Russian side of the Barents Sea. 117 species of seaweeds were detected on the Murman coast: 44 — Phaeophyceae, 24 — Chlorophyta, 48 — Rhodophyta, and 4 of them were new for this region. In the coastal zone of Novaya Zemlya 61 species of seaweed were found: 17 — Phaeophyceae, 8 — Chlorophyta, 36 — Rhodophyta, and 7 of them were new.
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