E. S. Chertopruda and L. A. Garlitskab
a Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
b Odessa Branch, Kovalevskii Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences, Odessa, Ukraine
e-mail: horsax@yandex.ru
Received November 2, 2006; in final form, April 4, 2007
Abstract—Based on extensive voluminous literary data, a comparison of the Harpacticoida faunas of the Black
Sea; the Sea of Azov; and the Caspian, Baltic, Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian seas, as well as
of the Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land areas, was performed. The degree of community and specificity of the
faunas of different regions was estimated and the general patterns of the latitudinal variability in the species
compositions were revealed. It is shown that the Harpacticoida faunas of geographically separated areas and
even those isolated from each other such as those of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Caspian Sea are
rather similar; an hypothesis is put forward that this is caused by the common history of the seas' formation. In
contrast, the faunas of the Arctic seas (Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian), whose water areas are
closely connected, are considerably different, being related to their different temperature conditions.
DOI: 10.1134/S0001437007060069
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