Year: 2015, Number: 1, Pages: 3-12
The physical-geographic characteristics of Trinity Bay (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan) are given. In Trinity Bay were found 102 species of marine plants, among them: 49 species of red algae, brown algae – 35, green – 15 and sea grasses – 3 species. On sublittoral soft soils the 146 species of macrozoobenthos were determined. The polychaete worms (49 species) and bivalves (19 species) are dominated. The greatest diversity was noted in habitats with silted soil, as well as on soils with a mixture of the gravel.