Biota and Environment of Natural Areas

Kopytina N.I.

Aquatic Mycobiota of the Nature Reserve (Zakaznik) “Kazachya Bay” (Black Sea, Crimea)

Year: 2018, Number: 4, Pages: 49-68

On the base of origin and literature data the inventory and taxonomic revision of micobiota of the regional nature reserve (zakaznik) “Kazachya Bay” are summarized. The annotated list of 138 species in 73 genera and 41 families of Basidiomycota (2 species), Ascomycota (123 species), Zygomycota (9 species), Chytridiomycota (1 species), Oomycota (1 species), and Labyrinthulomycota (2 species) is presented. Among them, 33 species have been detected in the sea foam, 36 species in water, 73 species in sediments, 13 species on fouling glasses, 20 species on macro algae, 21 ones on sea grass, 18 species on the skin of bottlenose dolphins, 12 species on oyster shells, and 29 species on dead wood. Eurytopic aquatic fungi (107 species) are more common in the bay than obligate marine fungi (31 species).. According to literature data, micromycetes having the greatest functional activity in aquatic ecosystems have been identified. These are opportunistic, phyto- and zoopathogenic fungi tolerant to different types of contaminants (biodestructors). Biogiographically boreal-tropical fungi (42,7 %) and cosmopolite species (37,7 %) predominant.

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