Specific Features of the Feeding of Larval Fish of the Families
Blenniidae and Gobiidae in Relation to Changes
in the Coastal Plankton Community of the Black Sea

I. V. Vdodovich^a, A. D. Gordina, T. V. Pavlovskaya, G. A. Finenko, T. N. Klimova,
G. I. Abolmasova, Z. A. Romanova, and I. G. Polikarpov

Institute of the Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences
of the Ukraine, pr. Nakhimova 2, Sevastopol, 99011 Ukraine

^a e-mail: Vdodovich@mail.ru

Received August 22, 2006

Abstract—Data on the feeding of larvae of mass Black Sea fish species of the families Blenniidae and Gobiidae
with a length of 2.2–7.0 mm from coastal waters of the Crimea (Sevastopol) are presented. Despite the tendency
for an improvement in the feeding of larval fish, Mnemiopsis leidyi, in the case of a prolonged staying in the
plankton in mass amounts in the absence of Beroe ovata, exerts a negative effect on the food resources and the
survival of larvae. This is evidenced by the indices of food consumption and the proportion of larvae with empty
intestines.

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945207060057

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