The fauna of aquatic invertebrates of the Western Bug River

  • Michail D. Moroz The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Vladimir M. Baitchorov The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Juriyi G. Giginiak The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

Abstract

Тhe species composition and abundance of aquatic invertebrates in the river the Western Bug River in the vicinity of Brest were studied. 70 species of macrozoobenthos and pleiston complexes belonging to 3 orders of invertebrate animals: Mollusca – 23; Annelida – 4; Arthropoda – 43 species and forms were registered. A large number of groups of species that are rheophilic properties is an important ecological feature of the studied ecosystem and, obviously, specifies the high quality of waters in the studied river. Among the identified aquatic invertebrates of greatest interest is the discovery of rare and protected species – dragonflies Ophiogomphus cecilia (Fourcroy, 1785) and mayflies Ametropus fragilis Albarda, 1878. The larvae of these amphibiotic insect species show rheophilic and oxyphilic properties.

Author Biographies

Michail D. Moroz, The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

PhD (biology), docent; leading researcher at the laboratory of hydrobiology

Vladimir M. Baitchorov, The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

doctor of science (biology); head of the sector of the inventory and accounting of animals

Juriyi G. Giginiak, The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

PhD (biology), docent; leading researcher at the sector of the inventory and accounting of animals

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Published
2019-01-18
Keywords: waterways, taxonomical structure, rare species, the protected and invasive species, Belarus
How to Cite
Moroz, M. D., Baitchorov, V. M., & Giginiak, J. G. (2019). The fauna of aquatic invertebrates of the Western Bug River. Experimental Biology and Biotechnology, 3, 72-78. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/biology/article/view/2537
Issue
No 3 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Biology
Section
Biodiversity

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