Modern Condition of Fauna Decapoda in the Mouth of the Don in Changing Environment

S. V. Statkevich

A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Research of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia

Abstract

A reduction in the number of narrow-clawed crayfish is determined. The main reasons are changes in the hydrological and chemical water regime and water pollution by industrial, agricultural and household waste. The new species of decapoda -stone shrimp was regis- trated in the Don mouth, whose appearance, probably due to mineralization of the Don delta water. Widespread of allochthonous Dutch crab is noted.

Keywords

mouth, fauna, decapods

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