Fish occurrence in the Kuban River Basin (Russia)

Oleg Artaev; Andrey Pashkov; Dmitriy Vekhov; Maksim Saprykin; Maksim Shapovalov; Marina Levina; Boris Levin

doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e76701

Fish occurrence in the Kuban River Basin (Russia)

Biodivers Data J. 2021 Dec 6:9:e76701. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e76701. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Oleg Artaev¹, Andrey Pashkov², Dmitriy Vekhov², Maksim Saprykin³, Maksim Shapovalov³, Marina Levina¹, Boris Levin^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences Borok Russia.
² Azov-Black Sea branch of "VNIRO" ("AZNIIRKH"), Rostov-on-Don, Russia Azov-Black Sea branch of "VNIRO" ("AZNIIRKH") Rostov-on-Don Russia.
³ Research Institute for Complex Problems at Adyghe State University, Maykop, Russia Research Institute for Complex Problems at Adyghe State University Maykop Russia.
⁴ Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Saint-Petersburg Russia.
⁵ Cherepovets State University, Cherepovets, Russia Cherepovets State University Cherepovets Russia.

Abstract

Background: This publication describes a dataset containing information on 1328 occurrences of fishes in the Kuban River Basin, the longest river of Northern Caucasus and representing its own freshwater ecoregion (428 Kuban Ecoregion). All observations have precise geo-referencing with the names of water bodies (rivers, lakes etc.). The dataset is based on both literature data (509 occurrences) and our own sampling (814 occurrences). Observations were carried out between 1889 and 2020.

New information: The majority (> 61%) of occurrences in the presented data are published for the first time. This extended dataset contributes significantly to fish fauna survey in the Kuban River ecoregion.

Keywords: Caucasus; Kuban River; Sea of Azov; database; fish fauna.

Oleg Artaev, Andrey Pashkov, Dmitriy Vekhov, Maksim Saprykin, Maksim Shapovalov, Marina Levina, Boris Levin.