Chapter 24
Some Aspects of the Biology and the Present
State of the Population of Protodorvillea
kefersteini (Polychaeta: Dorvilleidae) in the
Coastal Zone of the Crimea (The Black Sea)
Vera Kopiy
Abstract In the Black Sea, 3 Genus of Dorvilleidae were reported: Dorvillea
Parfitt, 1866; Schistomerngos Jumars, 1974; Protodorvillea Rettibone, 1961. In
the Black Sea, Protodorvillea kefersteini (Uljanin, 1877) occurs near the shores of
Bulgaria and along the Crimean coastline (Kiseleva, Polychaete worms
(Polychaeta) of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, Kola Research Centre Press
RAS, Apatity, 409 p, 2004; Marinov, Bull Zool Inst Bulg. Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences 21:69–75, 1966).
The aims of the present paper are to learn more about the biology of
P. kefersteini and to increase our knowledge about the present state of its population
structures along the coast of Crimea.
Samples of macrobenthos were collected from different areas of the Crimean
coastal zone (the Black Sea), during 2006–2011. More than 800 benthos samples
were collected from the pseudolitoral zone by using a hand bottom-sampler with the
0.04 m
2 capture area. Pseuvdolitoral is a narrow strip of beach. It is between the top
edge of the splash and riprap beach.
Polychaetes P. kefersteini usually inhabits coastal coarse sandy with a mixture of
gravel, shell, sandy soil or sand with a mixture of mud.
The annual density fluctuations of the polychaeta P. kefersteini was investigated
in the coastal zone of the Crimea. The number was significantly different in
different regions of the Crimea coast. In different seasons of the year spatial
distribution of P. kefersteini by depths was different. Over the entire observation
time abundance of the polychaetes was greatest in the belt below the water edge. In
summer and autumn polychaetes P. kefersteini were absent above the water edge,
and in winter and spring – along the water edge.
Though population of P. kefersteini includes polychaetes of different body sizes.
For the first time growth and development of juvenile (0.3–1.45-mm large)
P. kefersteini were studied and the time at which chaetae first arose on the body.
V. Kopiy (*)
The Institute of Marine Biological Research RAS, 99011 Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia
e-mail: verakopiy@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
C.W. Finkl, C. Makowski (eds.), Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences, Coastal
Research Library 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_24
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Some Aspects of the Biology and the Present
State of the Population of Protodorvillea
kefersteini (Polychaeta: Dorvilleidae) in the
Coastal Zone of the Crimea (The Black Sea)
Vera Kopiy
Abstract In the Black Sea, 3 Genus of Dorvilleidae were reported: Dorvillea
Parfitt, 1866; Schistomerngos Jumars, 1974; Protodorvillea Rettibone, 1961. In
the Black Sea, Protodorvillea kefersteini (Uljanin, 1877) occurs near the shores of
Bulgaria and along the Crimean coastline (Kiseleva, Polychaete worms
(Polychaeta) of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, Kola Research Centre Press
RAS, Apatity, 409 p, 2004; Marinov, Bull Zool Inst Bulg. Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences 21:69–75, 1966).
The aims of the present paper are to learn more about the biology of
P. kefersteini and to increase our knowledge about the present state of its population
structures along the coast of Crimea.
Samples of macrobenthos were collected from different areas of the Crimean
coastal zone (the Black Sea), during 2006–2011. More than 800 benthos samples
were collected from the pseudolitoral zone by using a hand bottom-sampler with the
0.04 m
2 capture area. Pseuvdolitoral is a narrow strip of beach. It is between the top
edge of the splash and riprap beach.
Polychaetes P. kefersteini usually inhabits coastal coarse sandy with a mixture of
gravel, shell, sandy soil or sand with a mixture of mud.
The annual density fluctuations of the polychaeta P. kefersteini was investigated
in the coastal zone of the Crimea. The number was significantly different in
different regions of the Crimea coast. In different seasons of the year spatial
distribution of P. kefersteini by depths was different. Over the entire observation
time abundance of the polychaetes was greatest in the belt below the water edge. In
summer and autumn polychaetes P. kefersteini were absent above the water edge,
and in winter and spring – along the water edge.
Though population of P. kefersteini includes polychaetes of different body sizes.
For the first time growth and development of juvenile (0.3–1.45-mm large)
P. kefersteini were studied and the time at which chaetae first arose on the body.
V. Kopiy (*)
The Institute of Marine Biological Research RAS, 99011 Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia
e-mail: verakopiy@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
C.W. Finkl, C. Makowski (eds.), Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences, Coastal
Research Library 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_24
405