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Check-list for Caspian Sea planktonic Cnidaria and Ctenophora

by Sophia Stepanyants

 

Type – Cnidaria
Class - Hydrozoa

  1.  

Ordo Limnomedusae
Family iidae

Moerisia pallasi

(Derzhavin 1912)

Caspian

  

Endemic

North, Middle Caspian

 

2.

  

Ostroumovia maeotica

(Ostroumoff, 1896)

Mediterranean

Common, numerous

Widespread

The Caspian Sea

 

3.

Ordo Leptomedusae
Family Campanulinidae.

Blackfordia virginica

Mayer, 1910

Mediterranean

Numerous

Widespread

The Caspian Sea

 

4.

Ordo Hydrida
Family Hydridae

Hydra sp.

Linnaeus, 1758

Freshwater

Facultative distribution

Widespread

Coastal zone of the Caspian Sea

  

Type – Ctenophora
Class - Tentaculata

5.

Ordo Lobata
Family Bolinopsidae

Mnemiopsis leidyi

A.Agassiz

Dumont, 1995

Marine, Atlantic

Numerous

Widespread

Caspian region– Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan., Iran

Ivanov and others 2000